General ...a good place to start
We welcome additions to this bibliography. If you have a suggestion, write the entire citation and send an e-mail to Robin Masi.
For further research:
Go to online library catalogs and type in "women artists", or an individual artist's name
Visit The National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1250 New York Avenue, Washington D.C., 20005, 202-783-5000, Krystyna Wasserman, Director of Library and Research Center.
Visit N. Paradoxa for an excellent list of women's art resources all over the world.
Also visit the Women Artists Archive at Sonoma State University, a research collection of slides and printed material on over 1,000 women artists from the Middle Ages to the present
GENERAL BOOKS ON WOMEN ARTISTS:
American Quilts: A Handmade Legacy, The Oakland Museum, 1981
Anscombe, Isabelle, A Woman's Touch: Women in Design from 1860 to the Present Day, Penguin, New York, 1985
Bank, Mirra, Anonymous Was A Woman, Saint Martin's Press, New York, 1979
Battersby, Christine, Gender and Genius: Toward a Feminist Aesthetics, Indiana University Press, 1989
Behr, Shulamith, Women Expressionists, Rizzoli, N.Y.,
Broude, Norma, and Mary D. Garrard, Feminism and Art History: Questioning the Litany, Harper and Row, New York, 1982
Broude, Norma, and Mary D. Garrard, The Power of Feminist Art, 1995
Brown, Betty Ann, and Arlene Raven, Exposures: Women and their Art, NewSage Press, Pasadena, CA, 1989
Callen, Anthea, Women Artists of the Arts and Crafts Movement, 1870-1914, Pantheon, N.Y., 1979
Casteras, Susan P., Images of Victorian Womanhood in English Art, Farleigh Dickinson University Press, Rutherford, Madison, Teaneck
Caws, Mary Anne, Rudolf E. Kuenzli, and Gwen Raaberg, Surrealism and Women, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1990
Chadwick, Whitney, and Isabelle de Courtivron, Significant Others: Creativity and Intimate Partnership, Thames and Hudson, London, 1993
Chadwick, Whitney, Women, Art, and Society, Thames and Hudson, London, 1990
Chadwick, Whitney, Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement, Thames and Hudson, London, 1985
Cherry, Deborah, Painting Women: Victorian Women Artists, Routledge, London, 1993
Contemporary Women Artists, Cedco Publishing, San Rafael, CA, 1991
Courtney-Clarke, Margaret, African Canvas, Rizzoli, New York, 1990
Dewhurst, C. Kurt, Betty MacDowell, and Marsha MacDowell, Artists in Aprons: Folk Art by American Women, Museum of Folk Art, E.P. Dutton, New York, 1979
Ecker, Gisela, Feminist Aesthetics, Beacon Press, Boston, 1985
Faxon, Alicia and Sylvia Moore, Pilgrims and Pioneers: New England Women in the Arts, Midmarch Arts Press, New York, 1987
Fine, Elsa Honig, Women & Art, Allanheld & Schram/Prior, London, 1978
Garb, Tamar, Sisters of the Brush: Women's Artistic Culture in Late Nineteenth Century Paris, Yale University Press, New Haven, 1994
Germaine, Max, A Dictionary of Women Artists of Australia, Craftsman House, Australia, 1991
Greer, Germaine, The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work, Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, 1979
Grimes, Teresa and Judith Collins, Five Women Painters: Laura Knight, Nina Hamnett, Carrington, Winifred Nicholson, Eileen Agar, Lennard Publishing, Oxford and the Arts Council of Great Britain, 1989
Harris, Anne Sutherland and Linda Nochlin, Women Artists: 1550-1950, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Knopf, New York, 1976
Hart, Lynda and Peggy Phelan, Acting Out: Feminist Performances, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1993
Hedges, Elaine, and Ingrid Wendt, In Her Own Image: Women Working in the Arts, The Feminist Press; MacGraw Hill, New York, 1980
Heller, Nancy G., Women Artists: An Illustrated History, Abbeville Press, New York, 1987
Hess, Thomas B. and Elizabeth C. Baker, Art and Sexual Politics: Why have there been no Great Women Artists?, Collier Books, New York, 1971
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Views from Jade Terrace: Chinese Women Artists 1300-1912, Indianapolis, IN, 1988
La Duke, Betty, Companeras: Women, Art, & Social Change in Latin America, City Light Books, San Francisco, 1985
Women Artists: Multicultural Visions, The Red Sea Press, New Jersey, 1992
Levin, Kim, Beyond Walls and Wars: Art, Politics, and Multiculturalism, Midmarch Press, New York, 1992
Lippard, Lucy, From the Center: Feminist Essays on Women's Art, E.P. Dutton, New York, 1976
Lippard, Lucy, Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America, Pantheon Books, New York, 1990
Lyle, Cindy, Sylvia Moore, and Cynthia Navaretta, Women Artists of the World, Midmarch Associates, New York, 1984
Marsh, Jan, The Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1985
Moore, Catriona, Dissonance: Feminism and the Arts, 1970-90, Allen and Unwin Pty Ltd, St. Leonards, Australia
Moore, Sylvia, Yesterday and Tomorrow: California Women Artists, Midmarch Press, New York, 1989
Munro, Eleanor, Originals: American Women Artists, Simon & Schuster, 1979
The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., N.Y. 1987
Nemser, Cindy, Art Talk, Scribner, New York, 1975
Nochlin, Linda, Women, Art, and Power and Other Essays, Harper & Row, New York, 1988
Nunn, Pamela Gerrish, Victorian Women Artists, The Women's Press Ltd., London, 1987
Parker, Rozsika, and Griselda Pollock, Framing Feminism: Art and the Women's Movement, 1970-1985, Pandora, London and New York, 1987
Parker, Rozsika, and Griselda Pollock, Old Mistresses: Women, Art & Idealogy, Pantheon Books, New York, 1981
Parker, Rozsika, The Subversive Stitch: Embroidery and the Making of the Feminine, Routledge, New York, 1984
Petersen, Karen and J.J. Wilson, Women Artists: Recognition and Reappraisal from the Early Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century, Harper Colophon Books, New York, 1978
Pettys, Chris, A Dictionary of Women Artists, G.K. Hall and Co., Boston
Pollock, Griselda, Vision & Difference: Femininity, Feminism, and the Histories of Art, Routledge, London, 1988
Raven, Arlene, Crossing Over: Feminism and Art of Social Concern, UMI Research Press, Ann Arbor, 1988
Rosen, Randy and Catherine C. Brawer, Women Artists Move into the Mainstream,1970-85, Abbeville Publishers, New York, 1989
Rosenberg, Judith Pierce, A Question of Balance: Artists and Writers on Motherhood, Papier-Mache Press, Watsonville, CA, 1990
Roth, Moira, The Amazing Decade: Women and Performance Art in America, 1970-1980, Astro Artz, Los Angeles, 1983
Rubenstein, Charlotte Streifer, American Women Artists, Avon, 1982
Rubenstein, Charlotte Streifer, American Women Sculptors, G.K. Hall & Co., Boston, 1990
Siegel, Judy, Mutiny and the Mainstream: Talk That Changed Art, 1975-1990, Midmarch Arts Press, New York, 1992
Slatkin, Wendy, Voices of Women Artists, Prentice Hall, N.J., 1993
Slatkin, Wendy, Women Artists in History: From Antiquity to the 20th Century, Prentice Hall, N.J., 1985
Trenton, Patricia, Independent Spirits: Women Painters of the American West, 1890-1945, Autry Museum of Western Heritage, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1995
Tufts, Eleanor, American Women Artists, 1830-1930, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1987
Van Wagner, Judy K. Collischan, Women Shaping Art: Profiles of Power, Praeger, New York, 1984
Waller, Susan, Women Artists in the Modern Era: A Documentary History, Scarecrow Press Inc., London, 1991
What She Wants: Women Artists Look at Men, edited by Naomi Salaman, Verso, London, 1994
Witzling, Mara R., Voicing Our Visions: Writings by Women Artists, Universe, New York, 1991
Witzling, Mara R., Voicing Today's Visions: Writings by Contemporary Women Artists, Universe, New York, 1994
Yablonskaya, M.N., Women Artists of Russia's New Age, Rizzoli, New York, 1990
INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS' BOOKS:
Ashton, Dore, and Denise Browne Hare, Rosa Bonheur: A Life and a Legend, Viking Press, New York, 1981
Benjamin, Tritobia Hayes, The Life and Art of Lois Mailou Jones, Pomegranate Art Books, San Francisco, CA, 1994
The Bronx Museum of Art in Association with Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, The Latin American Spirit: Art and Artists in the United States, 1920-1970, 1988
Leonora Carrington: The Mexican Years, The Mexican Museum, San Francisco, University of New Mexico Press, 1991
Chicago, Judy, Through the Flower: My Struggle as a Woman Artist, Anchor Books, New York, 1977
De Lempicka-Foxhall, Baroness Kizette, Passion by Design: The Art and Times of Tamara De Lempicka, Abbeville Press, New York, 1987
Flack, Audrey, Art & Soul: Notes on Creating, E.P. Dutton, New York, 1986
Fox, Matthew, Illuminations of Hildegard of Bingen, Bear and Company, Santa Fe, NM, 1985
Mary Frank: Sculpture, Prints, Drawings, DeCordova Museum and Dana Park, Lincoln, MA, 1988
Helen Frankenthaler: Prints, by Ruth E. Fine, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., Abrams, New York, 1993
Garrard, Mary D., Artemisia Gentileschi: The Image of the Female Hero in Italian Baroque Art, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1989
Gerzina, Gretchen, Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932, John Murray Ltd, London, 1989
Gillespie, Diana Filby, The Sisters' Arts: The Writing and Painting of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell, Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, N.Y. 1988
Gilot, Francoise, Life with Picasso
Gouma-Peterson, Thalia, Audrey Flack: Breaking the Rules, Abrams, New York, 1992
Hall, Lee, Elaine and Bill[de Kooning]: Portrait of a Marriage, HarperCollins, N.Y., 1993
Hale, Nancy, The Life in the Studio, Avon, N.Y., 1957
Henry, Gerrit, Janet Fish, Burton & Skira & Co., Ltd, New York, 1987
Herrera, Hayden, Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo, Harper and Row, 1983
Hill, Jane, The Art of Dora Carrington, Thames and Hudson, London, 1994
Hoffman, Malvina, Heads and Tales, Bonanza Books, New York, 1936
Hoffman, Malvina, Yesterday is Tomorrow: A Personal History, Crown Publishers, New York, 1965
Hooks, Margaret, Tina Modotti, Photographer and Revolutionary, HarperCollins, N.Y., 1993
Horses: The Art of Deborah Butterfield, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Chronicle Books, San Francisco, 1992
John, C.H.S., British Artists: Bartolozzi, Zoffany, & Kauffman, Phillip Allan & Co., London, 1924
Gwen John: An Interior Life, Barbican Art Gallery, Phaidon Press, Ltd, Oxford, 1985
Higonnet, Anne, Berthe Morisot, Harper and Row, N.Y., 1990
Kaplan, Janet A., Unexpected Journeys: The Art and Life of Remedios Varo, Abbeville Press, New York, 1988,
Kearns, Martha, Kathe Kollwitz: Woman and Artist, The Feminist Press, N.Y., 1976
Kling, Jean L., Alice Pike Barney, Her Life and Art, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., 1994
Lippard, Lucy, Eva Hesse, DeCapo Press, New York, 1976
Lisle, Laurie, Portrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe, Washington Square Press, 1980
Lynes, Barbara Buhler, O'Keeffe, Stieglitz and the Critics, 1916-1929, University of Chicago Press, 1989
Macfall, Haldane, Vigee LeBrun, T.C. & E.C. Jack, London
Merritt, Anna Lea, Love Locked Out, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Mochon, Anne, Gabriele Munter: Between Munich and Murnau, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University, 1980
Modersohn Becher, Paula, Letters and Journals, Northwestern University Press
Museum of New Mexico Press, Blue Light: The Artifice of Henriette Wyeth, Santa Fe, NM, 1994
Perlingieri, Ilya Sandra, Sofonisba Anguissola: The First Great Woman Artist of the Renaissance, Rizzoli, New York, 1992
Perry, Gillian, Paula Modersohn Becker, Harper and Row, N.Y., 1979
Prelinger, Elizabeth, Kathe Kollwitz, National Gallery of Art/Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 1992
Roworth, Wendy Wassyng, Angelica Kauffman, Recktion Books, London, 1992
Storm, John, The Valadon Drama, E.P. Dutton, New York, 1959
Tanning, Dorothea, Birthday, The Lapis Press, Santa Monica, 1986
Tappert, Tara Leigh, Cecilia Beaux and the Art of Portraiture, Smithsonian Museum/National Portrait Gallery, Washington D.C. 1995
MAGAZINES:
College Art Association Art Journal, Summer 1991
Tema Celeste: Contemporary Art Review, Autumn 1992. n. 37-38
Women Artists News, Midmarch Arts Press, 300 Riverside Drive, New York, N.Y. 10025 212-666-6990
Womens Art, Women's Art Library, Fulham Palace, London
Womens Art Journal, Editorial and Business Office, 1711 Harris Road, Laverock, PA, 19038 215-233-0639
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