Our Hidden Heritage: Five Centuries of Women Artists PDF
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nPRIN COUNTY FREE LIBRftRY 31111QQ9644756 HERITAGE women ive centuries or artist •,:^^^i^^^v• ^'i OUR HIDDEN HERITAGE EleanorTufts Our hidden Heritage: Five Centuries of Women Artists \>' unearths an unheralded legacy of art treasures by women artists. Through individual biographies, the lives and work oftwenty-two .^iv'*?;; women artists are authoritatively described by Eleanor Tufts. These exciting portrayals provide new insights into the Uves and works, the frustrations and successes ofthese talented women, as well as into their relationships with their contemporaries, husbands, friends and families. Over 125 full-page reproductions oftheir works from major collections throughout the world demonstrate the variety and enduring quality oftheir art. Their lives and their work were as diverse as their cultures and their times. Sofonisba Anguissola was praised by Michaelangelo; hevina Teerling received higher stipends from King Henry VIII than Holbein; Maria Sibylla Merian was honored by entymologists in tribute to her botanical illustrations; Angelica Kaujfmann was a friend ofGoethe and founder ofLondon's Royal Academy; Elisabeth Vigee ' -'n was a portraitist to Marit Antoinette, Kosa Bonheur wa ii ±^TU imlli „. 1 yti•.. 00964 4756 .^'!- DATE DUE urn 2 4 loof <^ APPTfin^ Ml i^-Z.^-?77 MAR ?R ill MUi^jasa -mnsim 2J S^ M-§- KOV 2 1m9M7^ I nrro^ \i^ i SEP 1 1 1^99 >••.'..: . . .V" >Xu.'- •^J OUR HIDDEN HERITAGE Digitized by the Internet Archive 2010 in http://www.archive.org/details/ourhiddenheritagOOtuft OUR HIDDEN HERITAGE women Five centuries of artists ELEANORTUFTS PADDINGTON PRESS LTD THETWOCONTINENTS PUBLISHINGGROUP To Hazel andJames Tufts ISBN 0-8467-0026-3 Library ofCongress Catalog Card Number 73-20955 © Copyright 1974 Paddington Press Ltd Printed in the U.S.A. Second printing 1975 Designed by Richard Browner IN THE UNITED STATES PADDINGTON PRESS LTD TWO CONTINENTS PUBLISHING GROUP 30 East 42 Street New York City, N.Y. 10017 IN THE UNITED KINGDOM PADDINGTON PRESS LTD 231 The Vale London W3 IN CANADA distributed bv RANDOM 'house OF CANADA LTD 5390 Ambler Drive Mississauga Ontario L4W 1Y7 11 TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations vii Preface xv • Author's Note and Acknowledgments xviii THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY Sofonisba Anguissola 21 Lavinia Fontana 31 • Levina Teerling 43 • Catharina van Hemessen 5 THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY Artemisia Gentileschi 59 Judith Leyster 71 • EHsabetta Sirani 81 Maria Sibylla Merian 89 • THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY Rachel Ruysch 99 Rosalba Carriera 107 • Angelica Kauffmann 117 Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun 127 • THE NINETEENTH CENTURY Sarah Peale 139 Rosa Bonheur 147 • Edmonia Lewis 159 Suzanne Valadon 169 • THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Kathe Kollwitz 179 Paula Modersohn-Becker 189 • Gwendolen John 199 Natalia Goncharova 21 • Germaine Richier 223 • I. Rice Pereira 233 Notes 243 Bibliography 247 • Index 252
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