American Women Artists
Books:
by Stephanie Andrews McNairy contains
seven essays included that recover the lesser known work of Robert Henri's
women students. The contributors, who include well-known scholars of art
history, American studies, and cultural studies demonstrate how these women
participated in the "modernizing" of women's roles during this
era. Pub;lished by Rutgers University Press. ISBN:0813536847. (left: front cover, American Women Modernists: The
Legacy of Robert Henri, 1910-1945. Photo courtesy Google Books)
pages. ISBN:0292790635. Original
from the University of Michigan. Digitized Nov 13, 2007. Google Books says:
"This encyclopedia is a biographical dictionary of some 1,000 women
artists of the American West. The product of a twenty-year, coast-to-coast
research project by authors Phil Kovinick and Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick,
it offers accurate, concise introductions to women painters, graphic artists,
and sculptors, all of whom achieved recognition as depictors of Western
subjects between the 1840s and 1980. Their styles range from representationalism
to early modernism, while their works depict everything from bold landscapes
and scenes of intensive action to studies of Native Americans, pioneers,
ranchers, farmers, wildlife, and flora."
color plates, this book is a rich
compendium of Western art by women. Published 1995 by University of California
Press. 304 pages. ISBN:0520202031. (left:
front cover, Independent spirits: Women Painters of the American West,
1890-1945. Photo courtesy Google Books)
growing presence in the American art world transformed
both its institutions and its ideology. Swinth traces the careers of women
painters in New York, Philadelphia, and Boston, opening and closing her
book with discussion of the two most famous women artists of the period
-- Mary Cassatt and Georgia O'Keeffe. Perhaps surprisingly, Swinth shows
that in the 1870s and 1880s men and women easily crossed the boundaries
separating conventionally masculine and feminine artistic territories to
compete with each other as well as to join forces to professionalize art
training, manage a fluid and unpredictable art market, and shape the language
of art criticism. Published 2001 by UNC Press. 305 pages. ISBN:0807849715
(right: front cover, Painting Professionals:
Women Artists & the Development of Modern American Art, 1870-1930.
Photo courtesy Google Books)
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