Munro, Eleanor C.,

Originals : American women artists / Eleanor Munro. - 528 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm

"An outgrowth of the television series 'The originals/women in art' produced by WNET/Thirteen.".

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Methods and matriarchs : A century of history and the new woman artist -- Mary Cassatt -- Georgia O'Keeffe -- Women of the first wave : Elders of the century, including Hedda Sterne and Sari Dienes : Lee Krasner -- Alice Neel -- Louise Nevelson -- Isabel Bishop -- Louise Bourgeois -- Helen Lundeberg -- Jeanne Reynal -- Alma W. Thomas -- Women of the second wave : Mavericks at midway, including Grace Hartigan, Jane Freilicher, Fay Lanser : Helen Frankenthaler -- Lila Katzen -- Joan Mitchell -- Elaine de Kooning -- Nell Blaine -- Miriam Schapiro -- June Wayne -- Mary Frank -- Women of the third wave : Sisters of the crossroads, including Elise Asher and Sheila de Bretteville : Anne Truitt -- Lenore Tawney -- Sylvia Stone -- Beverly Pepper -- Betye Saar -- Sheila Hicks -- Barbara Chase-Riboud -- Lee Bontecou -- Women of the fourth wave : Humboldt's daughters, including Athena Tacha, Mary Miss, Alice Aycock : Jennifer Bartlett -- Faith Reingold -- Eleanor Antin -- Jackie Winsor -- Michelle Stuart -- Connie Zehr -- Betty Klavun -- Patricia Johanson -- Afterword.

Discusses the lives and work of Mary Cassatt, Georgia O'Keefe, Alice Neel, Louise Nevelson, Helen Frankenthaler, Elaine de Kooning, Sylvia Stone, and other American women artists.



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Art, American--20th century
Women artists--United States--Biography

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