Women Artists: The National Museum of Women in the Arts

By Susan Fisher Sterling and National Museum of Women in the Arts

Book Overview

This handsome volume of works from the renowned collection of the National Museum of Women in the Arts--the best-known museum in the world dedicated to recognizing the achievements of women artists--is a fascinating record of women's diverse accomplishments from the Renaissance to the first decade of the twenty-first century. Prior to the establishment of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the work of great women artists had been ignored, forgotten, or denied; they had been largely left out of museums and histories of art.

Founded in 1987 by Wilhelmina Cole Holladay in Washington, D.C., the National Museum of Women in the Arts boasts a growing membership that is among the top ten in the world. The museum's multifaceted treasures include paintings, sculpture, photographs, prints, and crafts produced over the past five centuries by an international array of women artists.

Included here, in full color, are works by Lavinia Fontana, Judith Leyster, Elisabeth-Louise Vig?e-Lebrun, Hester Bateman, Rosa Bonheur, Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Camille Claudel, Berenice Abbott, Maria Montoya Martinez, Frida Kahlo, Georgia O'Keeffe, Lee Krasner, and many more.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0789210533
• ISBN13: 9780789210531
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Abbeville Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.1" x 4.4"

Customer Reviews

1532-1992 This book in a Box

The National Museum of Women in the Arts has put together a nice collection of works of art by women artist. The pictures are clearly photographed including works in all kinds of mediums from drawing to hand crafted items. I must say I'm quite impressed with the variety of images and ideas placed in this little book. If you're thinking of traveling with it you can carry it in a purse but not in a back pocket. Frida Kahlo is on the front cover and Mary Cassett is on the back. Everything from etchings, Tea sets, drawings and paintings have been included in this chronological bouquet of womens work. If you need to reference works of all kinds of varities of womens works this little book might get you far without costing you a whole lot of money or time referencing different sources. I really liked it's simple format. Your Servant, Deremiah, *CPE