This is a list of reliable sources for women artists:
- ULAN - Union List of Artist Names
- RKD - Rijksdienst voor Kunsthistorisch Documentatie (23% women)
- CLARA database of the National Museum of Women in the Arts
- Benezit Dictionary of Artists
- A Checklist of Painters c1200-1994, often just called the "Witt checklist"
- Michael Bryan's dictionary of painters and engravers, New York : first published (937 pages) in 1849 and expanded : Macmillan, 1903-05, 5 volumes
- Heller, Jules and Nancy G, Heller, ed., North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary Garland Reference Library of the Humanities (Vol. 1219), Garland Publishing Company, New York & London, 1995, 612 pages
- List of women in the Heritage Floor
- Armory Show
- Public Catalogue Foundation, 37,000 names, many are women - see WP:Yours
- Invisible Women
- The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work, by Germaine Greer, 1979
- Great Women Masters of Art, by Jordi Vigue, Paperback – January 1, 2003
- Danger! Women Artists at Work, by Debra N. Mancoff, 2012
- English Female Artists, by Ellen Creathorne Clayton, 1876
- Women painters of the world, from the time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the present day, edited by Walter Shaw Sparrow, 1905
- online catalogs of artists and museums at Archive.org
- online collection databases of the List of most visited art museums in the world
- Lorenz, Clare, Women in Architecture: a contemporary perspective, Rizzoli, New York, 1990
- Monro, Eleanor, Originals: American Women Artists Simon and Schuster, New York 1979
- Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer, American Women Artists, G.K. Hall & Co., Boston 1982
- Rubenstein, Charlotte Streifer, American Women Sculptors, G.K. Hall & Co., Boston 1990
- Tippett, Maria By a Lady: Celebrating Three Centuries of Art by Canadian Women, Viking Penguin, Harmondsworth, England, 1992
- Weinman, Jeanne Madeline, The Fair Women: The Story of the Women’s Building, World’s Columbian Exposition Chicago 1893, Academy Chicago 1981
- Canadian Women Artists History Initiative, https://cwahi.concordia.ca/
- Barlow, Margaret, Women Artists, Universe, New York, 2009