Women Artists in the Modern Era: A Documentary History

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Scarecrow Press, 1991 - Art - 392 pages
Now available in paper! This anthology brings together selections from sixty-one primary source documents_artist's letters, journals, and memoirs; critics' reviews; and minutes and reports of artists' societies and schools_that illuminate the experience of women artists from the mid-eighteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries in the United States and Europe. In addition to material related to the work of such well-known painters and sculptors as Elisabeth-Louise Vigee-Lebrun, Angelica Kauffmann, Rosa Bonheur, Harriet Hosmer, Cecilia Beaux, Marie Bashkirtseff, Berthe Morisot, Sonia Delaunay-Terk, and Barbara Hepworth, the volume includes material related to the work of amateur artists and women in ceramics and textiles. Cloth edition published in 1991.

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Louis Petit de Bachaumont Moufle
25
Wives and Artists
37
Salons of 1806 1808 and 1810
45
Copyright

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Susan Waller (B.A., Boston University) is Director of the Baxter Gallery and Instructor of Art History at the Portland School of Art, Portland, ME. Her articles on women artists have appeared in Women's Art Journal and Women Artists News.

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