An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West (American Studies Series) - Hardcover

Kovinick, Phil; Yoshiki-Kovinick, Marian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0292790635 ISBN 13: 9780292790636

Publisher: University of Texas Press, 1998

Synopsis

This encyclopedia is a biographical dictionary of some 1,000 women artists of the American West. The product of a twenty-year, coast-to-coast research project by authors Phil Kovinick and Marian Yoshiki-Kovinick, it offers accurate, concise introductions to women painters, graphic artists, and sculptors, all of whom achieved recognition as depictors of Western subjects between the 1840s and 1980. Their styles range from representationalism to early modernism, while their works depict everything from bold landscapes and scenes of intensive action to studies of Native Americans, pioneers, ranchers, farmers, wildlife, and flora.

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Review:

An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West is a work of considerable scholarship in its own right and should serve to stimulate further research into the lives of women artists. This well-designed reference work should prove extremely useful to scholars, booksellers, and collectors.

Synopsis:

The Kovinicks of the Los Angeles art world present 20 years of research on western artists from the 1840s-1980: not well-known macho artists like Russell and Remington, but about 1,000 women from Mary Todd Aaron (1879-1967), a foremost Oklahoma artist portraying the Osage Indians, to Marguerite Zorach (1887-1968), a Fresno, CA artist in several med

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0292790635
• ISBN 13: 9780292790636
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 405