American Women Artists
articles and essays about exhibitions
focusing on individual women artists
published 2000 - 2002
(above: Cecilia Beaux, Twilight Confidences, 1888, oil on canvas, 23.5 x 27.9 inches, Georgia Museum of Art. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
Introduction
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Resource Library articles and essays honoring the American experience through its art:
Virginia True (1900-1989), essay by Robin West (11/22/02)
Imogene Robinson Morrell (1837-1908), essay by David Sellin (11/8/02)
Elie Nadelman: Sculptor of Modern Life (10/8/02)
"The Only Miss Beaux": Photographs of Cecilia Beaux and her Circle; essay by Cheryl Leibold (9/2/02)
Drawing Attention: Joyce Treiman on Paper (8/27/02)
Drawing Attention: Joyce Treiman on Paper; essay by Michael Duncan (8/27/02)
Aimée Ernesta and Eliza Cecilia: Two Sisters, Two Choices; essay by Tara Leigh Tappert (7/25/02)
Claes Oldenburg/Coosje van Bruggen Drawings (5/30/02)
"The Delicious Character of Youth": Harold and Mildred Colton; essay by Sylvia Yount (5/28/02)
Sabra Field: Abstract Realist (5/28/02)
Sandra Principe: Flowers as Messengers (5/28/02)
Gentle Modernist: The Art of Susan Watkins, 1875-1913 (5/25/02)
The Art of Lucy May Stanton (5/14/02)
Marsha Skinner Landscape Drawings, with interpretive essay by David L. Witt (5/6/02)
Mary Frank, born 1933, Striding Woman, 1986; essay by Hollister Sturges (2/22/02)
Cassatt and Duncanson Paintings Acquired by MFAH (2/11/02)
Ann Stewart Anderson: Mythic Women (2/8/02)
Isabel Bishop, 1902-1988, At the Noon Hour, c. 1936; essay by Gloria Russell (12/28/01)
Aerial Muse: The Art of Yvonne Jacquette (11/20/01)
Helen Farnsworth Mears, essay segment by Laurel Spenser Forsythe (10/26/01)
Jessie Kalmbach Chase, essay segment by Deborah Rosenthal (10/26/01)
Elsa Ulbricht: A Career in Art; essay by Peter C. Merrill (10/19/01)
Alice Neel (1900-1984) at the Denver Art Museum (9/27/01)
Betty Harrington Macdonald, essay by Jann Haynes Gilmore (9/20/01)
Small Bronzes by Harriet Whitney Frishmuth (1880 - 1980) (9/18/01)
Penelope Harris, essay by Bill Scott (9/13/01)
Susan Macdowell Eakins (9/1/01)
An Unstill Life: S.C. Yuan / Paintings, essay by Kathleen Moodie (8/28/01)
How-To: The Paintings of Deborah Oropallo (8/27/01)
Harmonies and Contrasts: The Art of Marguerite and William Zorach (8/16/01)
Celebration of Life: The Art of Sandra Bierman (6/28/01)
Marguerite S. Pearson (1898-1978) by Patricia Jobe Pierce
Esther Bubley: American Photo-Journalist (6/23/01)
Contemporary Realism: Bettie and Samuel Roberts (6/2/01)
Simple Pleasures: The Art of Martha Cahoon, including essay by Cindy Nickerson (6/1/01)
Anne Carleton by Patricia Jobe Pierce 1878-1968 (5/18/01)
O'Keeffe's O'Keeffes: The Artist's Collection (5/11/01)
Janet Rickus: Still Lifes 1993-2001 (5/8/01)
Frank Duveneck & Elizabeth Boott Duveneck: An American Romance, by Carol M. Osborne (4/29/01)
Grandma Moses in the 21st Century (4/24/01)
Heightened Realities: The Monotypes of Ruth Weisberg (3/21/01)
Disturbing Allegories: New Graphics by Kara Walker (3/20/01)
Zelda: By Herself - The Art of Zelda Fitzgerald (3/15/01)
Elie Nadelman: Classical Folk (3/8/01)
Grandma Moses in the 21st Century (3/7/01)
Lisa Egeli and Rose Weinstock at Arts Club of Washington (2/14/01)
Lorie Novak: Photographs, 1983-2000 (2/12/01)
Carmen Lomas Garza: A Retrospective (1/11/01)
Nana Lampton: Travel Sketches and Paintings (1/10/01)
Parasols and Palmettos: The Art of Mary Lane McMillan (1/8/01)
The Fanciful World of Helen DuPré Moseley (1/3/01)
Dorothea Tanning: Birthday and Beyond (12/18/00)
Alice Neel at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (12/18/00)
Unexpected Beauty: The Paintings of Stephanie Sanchez (12/11/00)
Born Newporters: Documentary Portraits (12/4/00)
Star-Spangled Presidents: Portraits by Liza Lou (12/4/00)
Dorothea Lange: Human Documents (11/9/00)
Lyanne Malamed: Paintings and Drawings (11/9/00)
Helen Sampson and Annina Luck (10/31/00)
Mabel Alvarez (1891-1985) at Mission San Juan Capistrano (10/31/00)
Making Spirits Bright: The World of Jayne Shelley-Pierce (10/21/00
Joan Fitzsimmons: Introduction to Landscape (10/17/00)
Uta Barth: In Between Places (10/9/00)
The Secret World of Celia Reisman (10/1/00)
Palette Impressions: The Art of Helen Brewer (10/1/00)
Louise Dahl-Wolfe: The American Image (9/22/00)
Couples: Photographs by Mariana Cook (9/22/00)
Hal Golden and Lori Zamansky (9/13/00)
Body of Evidence: Art Quilts by Judy Zoelzer Levine (9/13/00)
Lorraine Peltz/Pink Works: Selected Paintings 1994 - 2000 (9/6/00)
The Story Quilts of Faith Ringgold (8/29/00)
Shelley Jordon: Revealing Beauty (8/26/00)
The Thrill of Excellence and Eleanor Iselin Wade: Artist and Horsewoman (8/14/00)
The Drawings and Etchings of Helen Loggie (8/9/00)
Gretchen Caracas: Landscape and Memory (8/9/00)
Inside/Out: The World of Sheila Miles (8/1/00)
Suzanne Chamlin: Recent Paintings and Drawings (7/20/00)
Marie Hull, Home and Abroad: Works from the Mississippi Museum of Art (6/28/00)
The Art of Alice Neel (6/23/00)
Barbara Chiminello: American Artist (6/23/00)
Creations of Clay ... the sculptures of Monika Hesse (6/17/00)
Loving Life: Recent Paintings by Marge Keary (6/15/00)
Paintings and Drawings by Ethel Denton Groos (6/14/00)
Representations: A New Work by Joan Lyons (6/9/00)
Mary Frank: Encounters (6/5/00)
Elen Feinberg: A Decade of Light (5/30/00)
Teresita Fernández at SITE Santa Fe (5/28/00)
The Art of Trio Plus: Nancy Arroyo, Lesia Beard, Marion Geeding and Annie Starkey (5/25/00)
Susan Kingsley: Postmodern Alchemy (5/19/00)
Temporary Contemporary: Recent Landscapes by Sally Mann (5/8/00)
Alexa Kleinbard: Talking Leaves (5/8/00)
The Beauty of the Outdoors: The Art of Melvin Redburn (5/6/00)
Joyce Scott: Kickin' It with the Old Masters at the Baltimore Museum of Art (5/4/00)
Mary Ellen Mark: Photographs (4/16/00)
Chalita Brossett Robinson - Walls and Windows and Wings (4/14/00)
Linda McCartney's Sixties: Portrait of an Era (4/3/00)
Rare Fusion: Susan Rankaitis (4/2/00)
The Art of Nellie Mae Rowe: Ninety-Nine and a Half Won't Do (4/1/00)
My Life with My Camera: Joan Liffring-Zug Bourret (4/1/00)
Sally Mann Photography (3/30/00)
Marguerite Lyons: Every Day Wonders (3/21/00)
Nadine Zanow: Recent Paintings (3/8/00)
New Frontiers #4: elin o'Hara slavick (3/3/00)
Miriam Schapiro: Work on Paper - A 30-Year Retrospective (2/27/00)
Carrie Mae Weems: The Hampton Project (2/22/00)
Lisa Zwerling: Primitive Lives (2/21/00)
Barbara Rogers Dreaming of Eden: Meditations on the Garden (2/21/00)
Georgia O'Keeffe: Six Decades of Landscapes and Life (1/19/00)
Barbara J. Zucker: The Topiary Series - Form and Shadow (1/15/00)
Altars & Icons: Installation/Sculpture by Cristina Emmanuel and Nancy Josephson (1/12/00)
(above: Alice Schille (1869-1955), Porto Rican Mother and Child, 1916, Special Exhibition Catalogue City Art Museum Saint Louis: The Eleventh Annual exhibition of selected paintings by American artists Opening September 3, 1916". Series 1916. No 17. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)
(above: Donna Schuster, O'er Waiting Harp Strings, 1921, oil on canvas, 30 x 30 inches, Laguna Art Museum. Gift of Catherine Jackson. Image courtesy of Laguna Art Museum.)
(above: Sarah Choate Sears, Mary, 1907, Photograph, Camera Work, No 18, 1907. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
(above: Marie Madeleine Seebold Molinary, St. Tammany Landscape, oil on canvas, 14.25 x 19.25 inches, . Ruth Gallery of Louisiana Art, Baton Rouge. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
(above: Henrietta Shore, Study for Mural of Rock Breakers, Smithsonian American Art Museum. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
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