Women and Art Research Guide

Reference Sources


Bibliographies | Biographies | Dictionaries & Encyclopedias | History & Theory | Feminism

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Reference Sources
Books

Bibliographies


Anderson. Women in the Fine Arts: A Bibliography and Illustration Guide. 1991. HumRef N 8345 .X1 A72 1991

Bachmann. Women Artists: An Historical, Contemporary, and Feminist Bibliography. 1978. HumRef N 8354 .X1 B34

Chiarmonte. Women Artists in the United States: A Selective Bibliography and Resource Guide on the Fine and Decorative Arts, 1750-1986. 1990. HumRef N 6537 .X1 W63 1990

Doumato. Architecture and Women: A Bibliography Documenting Women Architects, Landscape Architects, Designers, Architectural Critics and Writers, and Women in Related Fields Working in the United States. 1988.
HumRef NA 2543 .W65 X67 1988

Piland. Women Artists: An Historical, Contemporary, and Feminist Bibliography. 1994. HumRef N 8354 .P65x 1994

Puniello. Abstract Expressionist Women Painters: An Annotated Bibliography: Elaine De Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Grace Hartigan, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, Ethel Schwabacher. 1996. HumRef ND 212.5 .A25 P83x 1996

Puerto. Latin American Women Artists, Kahlo and Look Who Else: A Selective, Annotated Bibliography. 1996.
HumRef N 6502 .X1 P82 1996

Tufts. American Women Artists, Past and Present: a Selected Bibliographic Guide. 1984. 2 vols. HumRef N 6537 .X1 T85

 

Biographies


Collins. Women Artists in America: 18th Century to the Present (1790-1980). 1980. HumRef N 6536 .C523 1980

Ellet. Women Artists in All Ages and Countries. NY: Harper, 1859. N 43 .E44x

Hillstrom. Contemporary Women Artists. HumRef N 8354 .C66 1999

Opfell. Special Visions: Profiles of Fifteen Women Artists from the Renaissance to The Present Day. 1991. N 43 .O6 1991

Russo. Profiles on Women Artists. 1985. N 6512 .R87 1985

Springville Museum of Art. Women Artists of Utah. 1984. Special Collections N 8354 .S67x 1984

Wilson, K. Out of the land: Utah women. Utah: Utah Women's Art Project, 1992. N 8354 .O87 1992
Catalog of an exhibition at the Springville Museum of Art (Fall 1992) and at the National Museum of Women in the Arts(1993).

Watson-Jones. Contemporary American Women Sculptors. 1986. HumRef NB 212 .W37 1986

Women's History Research Center. Female Artists, Past and Present. 1974. N 43 .W65 1974

 

Dictionaries & Encyclopedias


Apostolos-Cappadona. Encyclopedia of Women in Religious Art. 1996. HumRef N 7793 .W65 A66 1996

Gaze. Dictionary of Women Artists. 1997. 2 vols. HumRef N 8354 .D53 1997

* Grove's Dictionary of Art. Online and in HumRef Index Table N 31 .D5 1996

Dunford. A Biographical Dictionary of Women Artists in Europe and America Since 1850. 1990. HumRef N43.D86x 1990

Heller and Heller. North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary. 1995.
HumRef N 6503 .N67 1995

Petteys. Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900 . 1985.
HumRef N 43 .P47 1985

Women Artists on Disc. Online.
Comprehensive bibliography covering nearly 25,000 women artists and integrating four key reference works: Dictionary of Women Artists, Women Artists in the United States, Women Artists and Designers in Europe Since 1800, and Feminist Art Criticism.

 

History & Theory


Asian Women Artists. 1996. N 7260 .A818 1996

Beckett. Contemporary Women Artists. 1988. N 72 .F45 B43x 1988b

Chadwick. Women, Art, and Society. 1997. N 8354 .C48 1997

Chadwick. Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement . 1985. NX 600 .S9 C48 1985

Eighteenth-century Women and the Arts. 1988. NX 452 .E56 1985

Fine. Women and Art: A History of Women Painters and Sculptors from the Renaissance To the 20th Century. 1978.
HumRef N 43 .F56

Harris and Nochlin. Women Artists, 1550-1950. 1976. HumRef N 6350 .H35

Heller. Women Artists: an Illustrated History. 1987. Quarto N 8354 .H45 1987

Henkes. American Women Painters of the 1930s and 1940s: The Lives and Work of Ten Artists. 1991.
HumRef ND 212 .H46 1991

Independent Spirits: Women Painters of the American West, 1890-1945. 1995. ND 225 .I53 1995

Jacobs. Defining the Renaissance Virtuosa: Women Artists and the Language of Art History and Criticism. 1997.
N 72 .F45 J33 1997

Kovinick. The Woman Artist in the American West 1860-1960. 1976. HumRef N 43 .K65

Lewis. Gendering Orientalism: Race, Femininity, and Representation. 1996.
NX 650 .E85 L48 1996

Marsh. Pre-Raphaelite Women: Images of Femininity in Pre-Raphaelite Art. 1987. Quarto N 6767.5 .P7 M38x 1987

Marsh. Women Artists and the Pre-Raphaelite Movement.1989.
N 6767.5 .P7 M39x 1989

Nochlin. Women, Art, and Power. 1988. N 72 .F45 N64 1988

Petersen and Wilson. Women Artists: Recognition and Reappraisal from the Early Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century. 1976. HumRef N 40 .P45

Rubinstein. American Women Artists: from Early Indian Times to the Present. 1982. N 6505 .R8 1982

Slatkin. Women Artists in History: From Antiquity to the Present. 1997. HumRef N 43 .S57 1997

Sparrow. Women Painters of the World: from the Time of Caterina Vigri, 1413-1463, to Rosa Bonheur and the Present Day. 1905. ND 38 .S7x 1905

Visions of the 'Neue Frau': Women and the Visual Arts in Weimar Germany. 1995. NX 550 .A1 V57 1995

Waller. Women Artists in the Modern Era: A Documentary History. 1991. HumRef N 43 .W26 1991

Women as Interpreters of the Visual Arts, 1820-1979. 1981. N 40 .W7

Women in the Victorian Art World. 1995. N 6767.5 .V52 W654x 1995

Yeldham. Women Artists in Nineteenth-century France and England.1984. 2 vols. N 6847 .Y4 1984

Zelevansky. Sense and Sensibility: Women Artists and Minimalism in the Nineties. 1994. N 6494 .M5 Z45 1994

 

Feminism


Broude. Impressionism: A Feminist Reading. 1991. ND 547.5 .I4 B76 1991

Inside the Visible: an Elliptical Traverse of Twentieth Century Art in, of, and from the Feminine. 1996. N 8354 .I58 1996

Langer. Feminist Art Criticism: An Annotated Bibliography. 1993. HumRef N 72 .X1 F45 1993

Reckitt. Art and Feminism. HumRef N 72 .F45 A78 2001

Robinson. Feminism-Art-Theory: An Anthology. 2001. HumRef N 72 .F45 F442 2001