American Women Artists
articles and essays about exhibitions
focusing on individual women artists
published 2009 -2016
(above: Marion Kavanagh Wachtel, Sunset Clouds, 1904, Google Books. 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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Resource Library articles and essays honoring the American experience through its art:
2013-
Helen Farr Sloan, 1911-2005; essay by Heather Campbell Coyle (10/7/15)
Someday is Now: The Art of Corita Kent (8/12/15)
Rediscovering Nina Belle Ward; essay by Karla J. Niehus (6/11/15)
Dialogue with Beauty - Scotty Mitchell Landscapes: text by Alan Petersen (12/20/14)
Dialogue with Beauty - Scotty Mitchell Landscapes (12/18/14)
Theresa Bernstein: A Century in Art (12/17/14)
Sister Mary Charles: Engagement and Transcendence (12/3/14)
Grace Hudson: Painter of the Pomo People (11/13/14)
Heaven: Rebekah Bogard (10/2/14)
Being, Nothingness and Much, Much More: Roz Chast, Beyond The New Yorker (8/7/14)
Austere Beauty: The Art of Z. Vanessa Helder (7/31/14)
Ethel Stein, Master Weaver (7/9/14)
"Blessed are the Peacemakers": Violet Oakley's The Angel of Victory (1941) (5/6/14)
Flowers in Winter: Celia Thaxter's Island Garden (11/13/13)
Lois Dodd: Catching the Light (2/8/13)
2011-1012
Lily Spandorff's Charmed Life (Until Now); essay by Brett Busang (11/21/12)
The Art of First Lady Ellen Axson Wilson: American Impressionist (8/7/12)
Colleen Browning at Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art (7/21/12)
Mary-Russell Ferrell Colton: Artist and Advocate in Early Arizona (6/5/12)
Painted Poetry: The Art of Mary Page Evans (4/21/12)
Curious George Saves the Day: The Art of Margret and H. A. Rey (12/21/11)
Beauty Rediscovered: Paintings by Adeline Albright Wigand & Otto Charles Wigand (12/15/11)
Mavis Smith: Hidden Realities (11/22/11)
Love Never Fails: The Art of Edouard and Luvena Vysekal (10/28/11)
Blanche Lazzell and the Advancement of Modernism; essay by Robert Bridges (8/17/11)
A Kansas Treasure in Context: Mary Cassatt (5/20/11)
Fortune's Way, or Notes on Art for Catholics (and Others); play by Steve Hauk (1/14/11)
2009-2010
O'Keeffiana: Art and Art Materials (12/16/10)
Helen M. Turner: The Woman's Point of View (11/18/10)
A Kinship in Art: Charles Demuth and Georgia O'Keeffe; essay by Anne M. Lampe (9/10/10)
Mary DeNeale Morgan, 1868-1948; essay by Julie Armistead (7/14/10)
Annie Lyle Harmon, 1855-1930; essay by Erika Esau (7/14/10)
Marion Kavanagh Wachtel, 1870-1954; essay by Jean Stern (7/14/10)
Alice Neel: Painted Truths (4/2/10)
Tula Telfair: Landscapes in Counterpoint (3/24/10)
Anna Hyatt Huntington: A Collector's Eye; article by Robin Salmon (2/17/10)
Agnes Pelton: Poet of Nature; article by Michael Zakian (12/14/09)
Behold the Day: The Color Block Prints of Frances Gearhart; essay by Susan Futterman (11/18/09)
The Art of Janet Fish (11/17/09)
Response and Memory: The Art of Beverly Buchanan (11/10/09)
Nina Fletcher Little: Bridging the Worlds of Antiques and Folk Art; article by Ruth Wolfe (11/5/09)
Illustrating Her World: Ellen B. T. Pyle (9/4/09)
Dove/O'Keeffe: Circles of Influence (7/11/09)
Judy Hill: The Self Transparent, From the Collection of Driek and Michael Zirinsky (5/2/09)
Elizabeth Enders: Landscape/Language/Line (3/27/09)
Unique Force: The Art of Carolyn Wyeth (3/11/09)
(above: Thelma Streat, The Black Virgin, n/d, oil on canvas, 20 x 14 inches, Reed College Art Collection, courtesy of Thelma Johnson Streat Project. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
(above: Jane Stuart, Oliver Hazard Perry, c. 1857, oil on canvas, 50 x 40 inches, Birmingham Museum of Art, AFI 81.2011. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
(above: Anna M. Richards Jr., Bandersnatch,
page image from A New Alice in the Old Wonderland, 1895, J.
B. Lippincott of Philadelphia. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
(above: L. A. Roberts, Yosemite Valley, early 20th century, oil on canvas, Cincinnati Art Museum, Gift of Mary M. Clift, M.D. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
(above: Olive Rush, Portion of a mural by Olive Rush located in the Biology Building at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, New Mexico, produced under a federal WPA contract. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
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