The Women Impressionists: A Sourcebook - Hardcover

by Russell T. Clement (Author), Christiane Erbolato-Ramsey (Author), Annick Houze (Author)

This reference organizes and describes the primary and secondary literature surrounding Mary Stevenson Cassatt, Berthe Morisot, Eva Gonzalès, and Marie Bracquemond, four major women Impressionist artists. The Impressionist group included several women artists of considerable ability whose works and lives were largely ignored until the advent of feminist art criticism in the early 1970s. They studied, worked, and exhibited with their male counterparts including Degas, Manet, Monet, and Pissarro. The entries provide extensive coverage of the careers, critical reception, exhibition history, and growing reputations of these four female artists and discuss women Impressionists in general as they shared the challenges of becoming accepted as professional artists in late 19th-century society.

Author Biography

RUSSELL T. CLEMENT is Head of Art Collection at Northwestern University. His recent publications include Neo-Impressionist Painters, coauthored with Annick Houzé (Greenwood, 1999), Four French Symbolists (Greenwood, 1996), and Les Fauves (Greenwood, 1994).