The first museum in the world to focus exclusively on art created by women, the National Museum of Women in the Arts opened to the public in Washington, D.C., in 1987. Its treasures include paintings, sculpture, photographs, and crafts by renowned women artists from the Renaissance through this century and from four continents. Full-color illustrations.

Women Artists: The National Museum of Women in the Arts (Tiny Folio)

Arts & Photography

Sterling, Susan Fisher

Individual Artists

Abbeville Press

This compact and impressive little survey features art by women from around the world, from the Renaissance to the present, and in all media. 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 Vigée-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.

Women Artists: The National Museum of Women in the Arts (Tiny Folio, 27)

History & Criticism

extremely rare,very good condition

Forefront: Cheryl Laemmle

POSNER, Helaine

National Museum of Women in the Arts(U. S.)

Natl Museum of Women in the Arts

The catalog for a traveling exhibit of Weems's photographs, sponsored by the National Museum of Women in the Arts. The 50 photographs, mostly black-and-white, deal with the life of contemporary Afro-Americans, especially women. Includes a 30-page introductory essay. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Carrie Mae Weems

Kirsh, Andrea

Biographies & Memoirs

Features Harriet Backer, Kitty Kielland, Asta Norregaard, and others.

At Century's End: Norwegian Artists and the Figurative Tradition, 1880/1990

Wichstrom, Anne

Smit, Toril

Northeastern University Press

Published by SITE Santa Fe – 152 pages, 84 color plates softback, 11 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches – Introduction by Louis Grachos Essays by Lisa Phillips, Susan Fisher Sterling and Dave Hickey -1997.

Sarah Charlesworth: A Retrospective

Phillips, LIsa

Hickey, Dave

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

SITE, Santa Fe

Women Artists: The National Museum of Women in the Arts (Tiny Folios (Paperback))

Otherworldly, provocative, and strange, Awake in the Dream World channels the looming, historical grimness of the classic fairy tale, illuminating the dichotomy between the real and imagined through the context of fantasy, and bringing to life a macabre ensemble of folkloric characters. Awake in the Dream World is a mid-career retrospective of artist and author Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler's Wife, bestselling novel turned feature film), reflecting her talent for cultivating a captivating narrative exclusively through pictures and her own confrontations with life, mortality, and magic. Niffenegger's fantastical body of work is reminiscent of renowned pen and ink predecessors such as Edward Gorey, Aubrey Beardsley, Egon Schiele, Edward Dulac, and Horst Janssen, but with a brutally honest and unapologetically strange female perspective that touches upon the universal trials of life—death and decay, love, jealousy, redemption, and the inevitability of change. Her works on paper, lithographs, and aquatints reflect the often surreal narratives of her artist's books. Through self-portraiture, Niffenegger reveals her own self-assurance and whimsy alongside anxiety and loneliness, probing darker corners of the human heart and mind, often exploring the hopeless struggle with what Shakespeare called "this bloody tyrant, Time." Essays by Audrey Niffenegger, National Museum of Women in the Arts Curator of Book Arts Krystyna Wasserman, and Art Institute of Chicago Curator and School of the Art Institute Professor Mark Pascale explore the artist's influences and work. Published in conjunction with the June 21—November 10, 2013 exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts.

Awake in the Dream World: The Art of Audrey Niffenegger

Pascale, Mark

Wasserman, Krystyna

NIFFENEGGER,AUDREY

powerHouse Books

Exploring the ways in which female identity is constructed and mediated through the art of photography is the central theme of this fascinating book

Role Models: Feminine Identity in Contemporary American Photography

Rice, Shelley

Soutter, Lucy

Wat, Kathryn A.

Photography & Video

Scala Books

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