From Sarah: "Alice Neel's work is so contemporary and bold. She was brilliant and very ahead of her time. She did not even have a first retrospective until she was in her 70's. She inspires me and so many female artists everyday; this book is full of quotes from her directly and has great color plates of her work."

Recommended by Sarah Solis Mattson, Fine & Applied Arts

From Joy: Judy Chicago is an internationally known and respected artist. It was a very enlightening account of a woman's journey through the male dominated art world.

Recommended by Joy Bertinuson, Fine & Applied Arts

From Amazon.com: "Why are women artists of the Italian Renaissance and Baroque so relatively unknown today when, during their lifetimes, their artistic merits were celebrated by their foremost contemporaries? [This book] aims to provide the first survey of women professionally active as painters, engravers and sculptors in 16th and 17th century Italy, and to document the sociocultural context that contributed to shape their lives and oeuvres."

Suggested by the ARC Library

From Library Journal: "Until recently, many photohistorians have overlooked women photographers and their important contributions to the early years of the medium. Pulitzer Prize nominee Sandler here balances this uneven history, reexamining the established literature to show that, from the beginning, women have been actively shaping the history of this art form...."

Recommended by Jodie Hooker, Fine & Applied Art

From Booklist: "The story of African American women artists is the story of overcoming racism and sexism and responding to black female stereotypes. ... Farrington begins with the days of enslavement and moves through the nineteenth century to the Harlem Renaissance, the civil rights era, and the present, profiling individual artists and chronicling their part in the long battle black women artists continue to fight to reclaim their own image and secure equality in the art world."

Suggested by the ARC Library

From Library Journal: "Here is yet another publication that strives to rescue from oblivion the neglected achievements of women in the visual arts. Juxtaposing the past 155 years of photographic history with events from women's social history, Rosenblum documents women's contributions to the technological, artistic, and experimental development of photography...."

Recommended by Jodie Hooker, Fine & Applied Art

From Amazon.com: "This beautiful book covers in depth the work of six designers—Beatrix Farrand, Martha Hutcheson, Marian Coffin, Ellen Shipman, Ruth Dean, and Annette Hoyt Flanders—and looks at a dozen other less-well-known women. It focuses on the Long Island projects that constituted a large part of their work and brings these pioneering women to life as people and as professionals."

Recommended by Debbie Flower, Horticulture

From Library Journal: "...this book is an exhaustive recounting of sculpture and some "crafts" made by American women artists, carefully compiled and illustrated for the general reader. Rubinstein includes virtually all pioneering women sculptors, largely basing her account on reputable secondary sources. Better still are the commentaries resulting from the author's own interviews..."

Recommended by Linda Gelfman, Ceramics

This illustration-filled book presents the art of over 150 19th and 2oth century women artists who lived in the American West.

Suggested by the ARC Library