基本信息出版社：University of California Press
页码：216 页
出版日期：2008年08月
ISBN：0520257499
条形码：9780520257498
装帧：精装
正文语种：英语

内容简介 Anna Richards Brewster, American Impressionist is the first in-depth study of an artist whose name is not well-known today but who was one of the most successful women artists of her time. This beautifully illustrated book, catalog to the exhibition of the same name, provides a fascinating look at the turn-of-the-twentieth-century art world as experienced by a woman artist. Anna Richards Brewster (1870-1952) began painting at age ten, studied with William Merritt Chase and John LaFarge, and trained at Académie Julian in Paris. She was a prolific painter of landscapes, portraits, and illustrations who showed her work regularly until the 1930s. In this volume, curator Judith Kafka Maxwell revives Brewster's work while exploring the contradictions common to women like her--those whose professional ambitions were neither supported nor encouraged by institutions or patrons. An introduction by Wanda M. Corn situates the artist in her social and cultural milieu, and essays by art historian Leigh Culver and American historian Kirsten Swinth explore the works themselves, the artist's education, and the post-Civil War rise of women artists. The result is a rich history of an artist and her time that makes vivid the obstacles faced by female artists in the early twentieth century.
作者简介 Judith Kafka Maxwell is an independent curator and researcher and a contributor to Celebrating Modern Art: The Anderson Collection (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art/UC Press).
媒体推荐 "Readable text, which places the artist in her social context ... Recommended for interested general readers and undergraduates through faculty at larger academic and public or special libraries."--Library Journal "[A] handsome, informative catalog."--Lower Hudson Journal News "An excellent study and a handsome book."--Art Times / Css Publications
编辑推荐 Review
"Readable text, which places the artist in her social context ... Recommended for interested general readers and undergraduates through faculty at larger academic and public or special libraries."--Library Journal "[A] handsome, informative catalog."--Lower Hudson Journal News "An excellent study and a handsome book."--Art Times / Css Publications

Review
"Readable text, which places the artist in her social context . . . . Recommended for interested general readers and undergraduates through faculty at larger academic and public or special libraries."--Library Journal

"[A] handsome, informative catalog."--Lower Hudson Journal News

"An excellent study and a handsome book."--Art Times / Css Publications