American Women Artists
articles and essays about exhibitions
focusing on individual women artists
published 2006 - 2008
(above: Edith White, Navel Oranges, blouinartinfo.com. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
Introduction
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Resource Library articles and essays honoring the American experience through its art:
Nancy Newhall and the Museum of Modern Art, 1942-1946; essay by Erin O'Toole (11/20/08)
Nancy Newhall: A Literacy of Images / Introduction; essay by Merry Foresta (11/20/08)
Nancy Newhall: A Literacy of Images (11/12/08)
Ann Gale's Interstitial Portraits; essay by Mark Van Proyen (11/6/08)
Bessie Potter Vonnoh: Sculptor of Women (10/7/08)
Clare Leighton: Her Family Foundations; essay by David Leighton (8/8/08)
Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love (7/23/08)
Elaine Badgley Arnoux: Once Upon a Time (7/18/08)
Anna Richards Brewster, American Impressionist; article by Laura Vookles (7/17/08)
Catherine Opie: American Photographer (7/7/08)
"Miss O'Keeffe" - Photography and Fame; essay by Susan Danly (7/5/08)
Georgia O'Keeffe and the Camera: The Art of Identity (7/5/08)
Ellen Lanyon: A Wonder Production (6/27/08)
Quiet Spirit, Skillful Hand: The Graphic Work of Clare Leighton (5/30/08)
Georgia O'Keeffe and Ansel Adams: Natural Affinities (5/24/08)
Iris Apfel: Rare Bird of Fashion; essay by Constance Schwartz (5/17/08)
Introduction - Iris Apfel: Rare Bird of Fashion; essay by Franklin Hill Perrell (5/17/08)
Iris Apfel: Rare Bird of Fashion (5/17/08)
Neke Carson: Eyeball Portraits and Beyond + Neke Paints Andy '72 (5/8/08)
Denise Fleming: Painting with Paper (5/6/08)
Sherry Markovitz: Shimmer, Paintings and Sculptures 1979 - 2007 (5/5/08)
Olive Vandruff: 100 at 100 (4/30/08)
Power Up: Serigraphs by Corita Kent; text by Glori Simmons (3/29/08)
Helen Inez Seibert; biography by Stuart Denenberg (3/28/08)
Laurie Hogin: The Forest of the Future (12/3/07)
Cynthia Brants: Beyond the Circle; with text by Margaret Blagg (11/24/07)
Amanda Snyder: Structures; essay by Roger Hull (11/23/07)
I Am: Prints by Elizabeth Catlett (11/23/07)
Amanda Snyder: Structures (11/17/07)
Elsie Driggs: The Quick and the Classical (11/7/07)
The Holy Experiment: Violet Oakley Mural Studies (11/6/07)
Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love (11/6/07)
Pip Brant: The Flying Carpet and Other Reusables; with essay by Eleanor Heartney (11/5/07)
Jane Hammond: Paper Work (7/27/07)
Minerva Teichert: Pageants in Paint (7/23/07)
Belle Baranceanu: The Artist at Work (6/20/07)
The Needle's Song: The Folk Art of Ethel Wright Mohamed; with text by Jill R. Chancey (6/4/07)
Cecilia Beaux, American Figure Painter (5/31/07)
Suzanne Chamlin: Painting the Landscape and Other Views (5/21/07)
Jusour wa Kusour: The Work of Doris Bittar, 1989-2007 (3/19/07)
Patterns and Rhythms: Paintings by Anita Rodriguez (3/2/07)
Grandma Moses: Grandmother to the Nation (1/25/07)
Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life, 1990-2005 (1/18/07)
Bridges and Waterfalls: Georgia O'Keeffe in Hawaii (12/4/06)
Seonna Hong; essay by Dana Self (11/13/06)
Melissa Zink: Quiddities, essay by Stephen Parks (11/2/06)
Kiki Smith: A Gathering, 1980-2005 (10/4/06)
Taoseños and Sojourners: The Photographs of Mildred Tolbert (9/1/06)
Melissa Zink: The Language of Enchantment (8/28/06)
Georgia O'Keeffe: Color and Conservation (6/26/06)
Sue Jean Covacevich: Pioneer Kansas Abstract Artist, with article by Stephen Gleissner (7/10/06)
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Made in America (5/15//06)
Julie Heffernan: Everything That Rises (4/20/06)
Catherine Opie: In and Around Home (2/18/06)
Betye Saar: Extending the Frozen Moment (2/7/06)
Flora, Fauna, and Fantasy: The Art of Dorothy Lathrop (2/3/06)
Between Heaven and Earth: The Paintings of Martha Mayer Erlebacher (2/3/06)
Gladys Nilsson: Recent Works (2/1/06)
(above: Alice Ravenel Huger Smith, The Rector's Kitchen and View of St. Michael's, c. 1910-15, watercolor on board, 22 x 28 inches, Greenville County Museum of Art. Smithsonian American Art Museum says: "Back the rector's home at St. Michael's Church in Charleston, South Carolina showing the small kitchen building with church spire rising behind it. Standing just outside the doorway of the kitchen is an African-American woman tending to a baby that is seated on the ground in front of her." Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
(above: Lilly Martin Spencer, Patty-cake, c. 1855, oil on canvas, 24 x 20 inches, Cincinnati Art Museum, Bequest of Mr. and Mrs. Walter J. Wichar. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
(above: Lucy May Stanton, Self-portrait, 1912, watercolor on ivory. National Portrait Gallery. Gift of Mrs. Edward C. Loughlin. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
(above: Florine Stettheimer, Portrait of Virgil Thomson, c. 1930, 38.5 x 20.1 inches, oil on canvas, Art Institute of Chicago, gift of Virgil Thomson. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
(above: Alice Kent Stoddard, Fisherman's Little Sister, 1911, oil on canvas, 30.1 x 25 inches, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Art Association Purchase. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
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