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October 24, 2002
Laura R. Prieto At Home in the Studio: The Professionalization of Women Artists in America Harvard University Press, 2001. 292 pp.; 13 b/w ills. Cloth $39.95 (0674004868)
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Kirsten Swinth Painting Professionals: Women Artists and the Development of Modern American Art, 1870–1930 Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2001. 328 pp.; 40 b/w ills. Paper $18.95 (0807849715)

 
CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2002.74

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As the first comprehensive histories of women’s artistic production in the United States, these ambitious and well-researched books initiate an important dialogue about women, creativity, and the visual arts. Surprisingly, neither of these authors are art historians: Laura R. Prieto is assistant professor of history and women’s studies at Simmons College, and Kirsten Swinth is associate professor of history at Fordham University. In fact, Swinth makes a point in Painting Professionals: Women Artists and the...