Kirsten Swinth
Painting Professionals: Women Artists and the Development of Modern American Art, 1870–1930
Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press,
2000.
328 pp.; 40 b/w ills.
Paper
$18.95
(0807849715)
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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,
2000.
292 pp.; 13 b/w ills.
Cloth
$39.95
(0674004868)
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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...