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Women Artists: A Select Bibliography

REFERENCE & BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS

American women artists : from early Indian times to the present
Streifer-Rubinstein, Charlotte. Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall, c1982

American women sculptors: a history of women working in three dimensions
Streifer-Rubinstein, Charlotte. Boston, Mass. : G.K. Hall, 1990.

Biographical dictionary of women artists in Europe and America since 1850
Dunford, Penny. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1989.

Concise dictionary of women artists
Gaze, Delia, editor. London ; New York : Fitzroy Dearborn, 2001.

Contemporary women artists
Collier-Hillstrom, Laurie & Kevin Hillstrom, editors. Detroit : St. James Press, c1999.

Dictionary of artists' models
Berk-Jiminez, Jill, editor. London ; Chicago : Fitzroy Dearborn, c2001.

Female gazes : seventy-five women artists
Martin, Elizabeth & Vivian Meyer. Toronto : Second Story Press, c1997.

Who's who of American women : geographical-vocational index
Chicago : Marquis Who's Who, 1959-

Women artists in the 20th and 21st century
Grosenick, Uta, editor. Köln ; New York: Taschen, 2001.


WOMEN ARTISTS OF ETHNICITY

The art of Black American women : works of twenty-four artists of the twentieth century
Henkes, Robert. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c1993.

Latin American women artists of the United States : the works of 33 twentieth-century women

Henkes, Robert. Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c1999.

Women artists of color: a bio-critical sourcebook to 20th century artists in the Americas
Farris, Phoebe, editor. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999.
Includes: Native, Latin, African, & Asian-Pacific American women artists


FEMINIST ART

Feminist art criticism : an annotated bibliography
Langer, Cassandra. New York, NY : G.K. Hall, 1993.

Historical dictionary of feminism
Janet K. Boles, Diane Long Houveler, Rebecca Bardwell. Lanham, Md. :
Scarecrow Press, 1996.

The Routledge critical dictionary of feminism and postfeminism
Gamble, Sarah, editor. New York : Routledge, 2000.



GENERAL SEARCH STRATEGIES & SOURCES

Monographs

see
Women Artists - 9 related subjects in the WU catalog & beyond

see Feminism and Art under subject
see Feminism - 14 related subjects
see Gender Identity in Art

Periodicals

see Feminism- Periodicals or Women Artists- Periodicals in the WU catalog subject listing, UnionLists, & WorldCat


Full-text Journals available through Project Muse:

Camera Obscura (2000- present)

differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies (1998-present)

Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies ( 2001-present)

Hypatia (2002- present)

Journal of Women's History (2000-present)

NWSA Journal (1999-present)


Databases
see Washington University Women's Studies Databases Page

Art & Art History Databases Page




WEB SITES

artcyclopedia.com chronological list of women artists, 1490 to present

Artwomen.org


Australian Women's Art Register

Bildwechsel ~ an umbrella organization for women / media arts /culture

Guerrilla Girls ~Facts, humor & fake fur

National Museum of Women in the Arts

Varos Registry ~ Bibliography of Women Artists

Women Artists Books in Special Collections, Olin Library

Women Artists in the Washington University Collections


BIBLIOGRAPHIES

Abstract expressionist women painters: an annotated bibliography
Puniello, Françoise S. Lanham, MD : Scarecrow Press, 1995.

American women photographers: a selected and annotated bibliography
Kreisel, Martha. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1999.

Feminist art criticism : an annotated bibliography
Langer, Cassandra. New York, NY : G.K. Hall, 1993.

A gallery of her own: an annotated bibliography of women in Victorian painting
Harris, Elree I. New York : Garland Publishing, 1997.

St. Louis women artists: a bibliography

Compiled by E. Petraits.

Women artists in the United States: a selective bibliography and resource guide on the fine and decorative arts, 1750-1986

McCracken, Penny. New York : G. K. Hall ; London : Prentice Hall International, 1997-

The women impressionists: a sourcebook
Clement, Russell T. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000.

Women in the fine arts: A bibliography and illustration guide
Anderson, Janet A.Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c1991.