The Women Impressionists: A Sourcebook

This reference organizes and describes the primary and secondary literature surrounding Mary Stevenson Cassatt, Berthe Morisot, Eva Gonzales, 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.

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

ANNICK HOUZE is the French Cataloger at the Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. She coauthored along with Russell T. ClementNeo-Impressionist Painters (Greenwood, 1999).

CHRISTIANE ERBOLATO-RAMSEY is Fine Arts Librarian, Lee Library, Brigham Young University.