American Women Artists
articles and essays about exhibitions
focusing on individual women artists
published 1997 - 1999
(above: E. Charlton Fortune, Hatton Ranch, 1920, oil on canvas, 38 x 48 inches, Monterey Museum of Art. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
Introduction
This section of the Traditional Fine Arts Organization (TFAO) catalogue Topics in American Art is devoted to the topic "American Women Artists." Articles and essays specific to this topic published in TFAO's Resource Library are listed at the beginning of the section. Clicking on titles takes readers directly to the articles and essays. The date at the end of each title is the date of publication in Resource Library.
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(above: Cecilia Beaux, The Dreamer, 1894, oil on canvas, 33 x 25 inches, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
Resource Library articles and essays honoring the American experience through its art:
Katherine Sowle: Circus Impressions (12/19/99)
Towards the Horizon: Recent Works on Paper by Mary Ellen Doyle (12/16/99)
Ellen Lanyon: Transformations, Selected Works from 1971-1999 (12/15/99)
New Paintings by Mary Cate-Carroll at the Montage Gallery (12/8/99)
Miriam Schapiro: A Retrospective of Paintings 1954 - 1997 (11/24/99)
The Art of Nellie Mae Rowe: Ninety-Nine and a Half Won't Do (11/24/99)
Caroline Compton: The River at Vicksburg and Beyond (11/23/99)
Deborah Paswaters: Realm-Millennium (11/19/99)
Belie Emerson Keith at Rockford Art Museum (11/11/99)
Fields of Color: Pastel Landscapes by Jane Lincoln (11/6/99)
Hood Museum of Art Acquires Rare Outdoor Still Life by Maria Oakey Dewing (11/1/99)
Ruth Weisberg: Canto V: A Whirlwind of Lovers (10/23/99)
Isabel Robinson (1894-1976): Show Me West Texas (10/18/99)
Georgia O'Keeffe: the Poetry of Things (10/16/99)
Elizabeth O'Neill Verner: Charleston Renaissance Artist (10/11/99)
Margaret Lefranc (1907-1998) (10/7/99)
Crossed Purposes: Joyce and Max Kozloff (9/25/99)
Upon a Lilac Sea: Paintings by Catherine McCarthy (9/22/99)
Miriam Schapiro: Works on Paper, A Thirty Year Retrospective (9/11/99)
Barbara Lyman at the Springville Museum of Art (9/11/99)
Fairy Tales: Portrait Paintings by Elena Sisto (9/8/99)
Kristin Capp: Hutterite Photographs (8/21/99)
Linda McCartney's Sixties: Portrait of an Era (8/9/99)
Mary Cassatt at National Gallery of Art (8/6/99)
Grace Albee: An American Printmaker, 1890-1985 (7/30/99)
Mind and Machine: Rhonda Wall, Recent Works (7/28/99)
Cut from the Cloth of Life: The Fabric Collages of Elizabeth B. Noyce (7/26/99)
Carmel Plein Air Festival - Featured Artist: Judy Molyneaux (7/1/99)
Betty Tompkins: Weir Deer (6/23/99)
A Loaded Brush - Nancy Brett: Recent Paintings (6/22/99)
Lorraine S. Capparell: Five Women (6/16/99)
Queen of My Room: A Survey of Work by Julie Speed, 1989-1999 (6/9/99)
Watercolors by Peggy Flora Zalucha and Roberta Barnes Landscapes (6/7/99)
Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things (5/30/99)
Painting in a Lonely Arena: Joyce Treiman and the Old Masters (5/11/99)
The Last Country, Photographs from a Community-based Project by Dona Ann McAdams (5/4/99)
Alberta Cifolelli: A Retrospective (5/1/99)
"The Endicott Street Pictures," an Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Stephanie Kay (4/13/99)
Cynthia Carlson Paintings: The Dog Show (3/29/99)
Drawn with Butterfly's Wings: The Art of Lilian Westcott Hale (1880-1963) (3/18/99)
Carol Anthony: A Place of Inner Stillness (3/7/99)
Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things (3/6/99)
Mabel Alvarez (1891-1985): A Retrospective (2/23/99)
Dorothea Tanning: Still in the Studio (2/23/99)
Fruits and Flowers: Botanical Paintings by Geraldine King Tam (2/11/99)
Carol Mothner: Monotypes of Birds' Nests and Flowers (1/29/99)
Linda McCartney's Sixties: Portrait of an Era (12/23/98)
Photographic Tableaux: Tina Barney's Family Album (12/19/98)
Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz (12/15/98)
Recent Work: Carrie Mae Weems, 1992-1998 (12/14/98)
Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman (12/7/98)
Parks and Portraits: Dona Nelson, 1983-88 (11/17/98)
Mostly Prague: Photographs by Anna Tomczak (10/28/98)
Face to Face. The Paintings of Mabel Alvarez (10/8/98)
Edgar and Elsie Payne (9/21/98)
Mary Cassatt: Drawings and Prints in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (9/16/98)
Lois Mailou Jones and Her Former Students: An American Legacy (9/15/98)
Figuratively Speaking: Paintings by Katherine Hu Fan (9/15/98)
Making Waves: Sculpture by Sarah Haviland (9/15/98)
Transformation: The Art of Joan Brown (9/1/98)
Georgia O'Keeffe: The Artist's Landscape, Photographs by Todd Webb (8/22/98)
Susan Ricker Knox: Portsmouth and Beyond (7/31/98)
Memory is a Painter: The Art of Grandma Moses (7/17/98)
Julie Inman: Giclee Prints (5/24/98)
Spirits, Wolves, and Metaphors An Exhibition of Paintings by Elisse Pogofsky-Harris (5/4/98)
Painting Along the Seine, by Kay Rebber Foote (10/9/97)
Leonore Rae Smith: American Portraiture (1997)
(above: Mabel May Woodward, Young Girl with Fish Bowl, oil on canvas, 20 x 16 inches, Shannon's Fine Art, Milford, Connecticut. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
(above: Margaret Tafoya, Wedding Vase, Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico, c. 1970, oil on canvas, 22.5 x 42 inches, Bowers Museum, Anonymous Donor. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons**)
(above: Augusta Savage posing with her sculpture Realization, created as part of the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project, c. 1938, Photographer: Andrew Herman. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
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