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Women and the Fine Arts

Reference Sources|Introductions/Overviews|Specialized Titles|Videos|Web Sites

REFERENCE SOURCES

Women in The Fine Arts: A Bibliography and Illustration Guide
Z7963.A75 A47 1991 N8354

 

INTRODUCTIONS/OVERVIEWS

Chadwick, Whitney. Women, Art, and Society. New York: Thames and 
Hudson, 1990.

Davidov, Judith Fryer. Women
's Camera Work: Self/Body/Other in American Visual Culture. Durham: Duke University Press, 1998.

Harris, Ann Sutherland. Women Artists, 1550-1950. New York: Random House,
1976.

Heller, Nancy. Women Artists: An Illustrated History. New York: Abbeville Press, 1987.

Opfell, Olga S. Special Visions: Profiles of Fifteen Women Artists From The Renaissance to the Present Day. Jefferson, N.C: McFarland, 1991.

Petersen, Karen. Women Artists: Recognition and Reappraisal From the Early Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century. New York: Harper & Row, 1976.

Sullivan, Constance. Women Photographers. New York: Abrams, 1990.

SPECIALIZED TITLES

Barkan, Rhoda. From Santa Fe to OKeeffe Country: A One Day Journey Through the Soul of New Mexico. Santa FE, New Mexico: Ocean Tree Books, 1997.

Hale, Nancy. Mary Cassatt. Reading, Mass: Wesley Pub; 1987.

Herrera, Hayden. Frida, A Biography of Frida Kahlo. New York; Harper & Row, 1983.

Kahlo, Frida. The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1995.

Lange, Dorothea. Dorothea Lange. New York: Aperture, 1987.

Lange, Dorothea. Photographs of a Lifetime. Millerton, New York: Viking Penguin, 1982.

Lisle, Laurie. Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia OKeeffe. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico, 1986.

Marsh, Jann. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement. London: Virago, 1989. 

Mathews, Nancy Mowll. Mary Cassatt: The Color Prints. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1989.

Messinger, Lisa Mintz. Georgia OKeeffe. London: Thames & Hudson, 2001. 

OKeefe, Georgia. One Hundred Flowers. New York: Knopf, 1987.

Paris, Reine-Marie. Camille Claudell. Washington, D.C: National Museum
Of Women in the Arts, 1988.
Partridge, Elizabeth. Dorothea Lange--A Visual Life. Washington:
Smithsonian Institution Press, 1994.

Peters, Sarah Whitaker. Becoming O'Keeffe: The Early Years. New York: Abbeville Press, 1991.

Pollock, Griselda. Vision and Difference: Femininity, Feminism, and Histories of Art. New York: Routledge, 1988.

Pullitzer, Anita. A Woman on Paper: Georgia OKeeffe. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988.

Robinson, Roxana. Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life. New York: Harper & Row, 1989.

Turner, Elizabeth Hutton. Georgia O'Keeffe: The Poetry of Things. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. 

Zamora, Martha. Frida Kahlo: The Brush of Anguish. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1990.

VIDEOS

Frida Kahlo ND259.K33 F74

Georgia OKeeffe N6537.O39 G46 1997

Going Where I've Never Been:The Photography of Diane Arbus TR140.A73 G64 1989

Great Women Artists N8354 .G74 2000
  v. 1 Mary Cassatt
  v. 2 Frida Kahlo
  v. 3 Georgia O'Keeffe

WEB SITES

National Museum of Women in the Arts
http://www.nmwa.org/

Excellent web site focusing on the achievements of women artists of all periods and nationalities.

 

Updated 02/08/2007