Who has been the most famous artist woman in the world?

Question

Who has been the most famous artist woman in the world?

Answer 1

Marilyn Monroe

Answer 2

Here are some of my favorite contemporary women artists who are famous (now deceased)

Georgia O'Keeffe best know as painter of giant, close-up flowers

married to famous photographer Alfred Stieglitz  

Louise Nevelson [Russian-born American Abstract Expressionist Sculptor)

Mary Cassatt  (impressionist painter)

Helen Frankenthaler (color field stain painter - abstract expressionist)

(formerly Married to painter Robert Motherwell)

Dorothy Hood (Southwest - U.S. abstract painter)

Margaret Held Abstract painter