Collier Library - Pathfinder

 

WOMEN ARTISTS

 

SCOPE:  The purpose of this pathfinder is to introduce some of the resources available in Collier Library in the field of WOMEN ARTISTS. Please note that this guide is not a comprehensive listing of sources, but is intended to be a starting point from which students can begin their research according to their specific needs.

 

The Library of Congress Class that includes WOMEN ARTISTS is N.  BROWSING the following CALL NUMBERS may produce helpful titles:

 

N 1 – (9211)

Visual Arts

N  1 – 58

General

N 61 – 72

Theory. Philosophy

N 8350 – 8356

Art as a Profession. Artists

 

 

For a more complete listing see http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/

 

In the event you do not find what you are looking for by browsing consult UNACAT, the online catalog.  The following are selected SUBJECT HEADINGS, which appear in UNACAT.

 

FEMINISM AND ART

WOMEN ART HISTORIANS

WOMEN ARTISTS

WOMEN ARTISTS, AFRO-AMERICAN

 

Other Subject headings can be identified by using Library of Congress Subject Headings, located on the dictionary stand in the Reference Area. 

 

Ø      BEGINNING RESEARCH – SELECTED SOURCES

 

Introduction and overview material

  • American Women Artists:  From Early Indian Times to the Present [N  6505  .R8] by Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein
  • At Home In The Studio: The Professionalization of Women Artists in America [N 8354 .P75 2001] by Laura R. Prieto
  • Funny Ladies: The New Yorker’s Greatest Women Cartoonists And Their Cartoons [NC 1428 .N427 D66 2005] by Liza Donnelly
  • A History of Women Photographers [TR 139 .R67] by Naomi Rosemblum
  • Magnifying Mirrors:  Women, Surrealism, and Partnership [N  6494  .S8  H83] by Renee Riese Hubert
  • Mirror Images:  Women, Surrealism, and Self-Representation [N  8354  .M57] edited by Whitney Chadwick
  • Ornament and Silence:  Essays on Women’s Lives [PN  471  .F69] by Kennedy Fraser
  • Power of Feminist Art:  the American Movement of the 1970s, History and Impact [N  72  .F45  P68] edited by Norma Broude & Mary D. Garrard
  • Singular Women: Writing The Artist [N 72 .F45 S55  2003] by Kristen Frederickson
  • A World of Our Own [N 8354 .B679 2000] by Frances Borzello
  • Woman Artists in History:  From Antiquity to the 20th Century [N  43  .S57] by Wendy Slatkin
  • Women Artists [N8354 .B37 1999] by Margaret Barlow
  • Women Artists in the Modern Era: A Documentary History [N 43 .W26] by Susan Waller
  • Women Artists, 1550 to 1950 [N  6350  .H35] by Ann Sutherland Harris
  • Women Artists:  an Illustrated History [N  8354  .H45  1991] by Nancy Heller
  • Women, Art, and Power:  and Other Essays [N  8354  .H45] by Linda Nochlin
  • Women, Art, and Society [N  8354  .C48] by Whitney Chadwick

 

Literature guides and bibliographies

  • American Women Artists, Past and Present:  A Selected Bibliographic Guide [Ref  Z  7963  .A75  T84] by Eleanor Tufts
  • Feminist Art Criticism:  an Annotated Bibliography [Ref  Z  5956  .F44  L36] by Cassandra L. Langer
  • Women Artists in the United States:  a Selective Bibliography and Resource Guide on the Fine and Decorative Arts, 1750-1986 [Ref  Z  7963  .A75  W65] by Paula L. Chiarmonte
  • Women Artists:  an Historical, Contemporary, and Feminist Bibliography [Ref  Z  7963  .A75  B32] by Sherry Piland
  • Women in the Fine Arts:  a Bibliography and Illustration Guide [Ref  Z  7963  .A75  A47] by Janet A. Anderson

 

Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

  • A Biographical Dictionary of Women Artists in Europe and America Since 1850 [Ref  N  6757  .D86] by Penny Dunford
  • Contemporary Women Artists [Ref  N  8354  .C66] edited by Laurie Collier Hillstrom
  • Dictionary of Women Artists [Ref  N  8354  .D53] edited by Delia Gaze
  • Dictionary of Women Artists:  An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900 [Ref  N  43  .P47] by Chris Petteys
  • Encyclopedia of World Biography [Ref  CT  103  .E56]
  • North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary [Ref  N  6503  .N67] edited by Jules Heller
  • The Continuum Dictionary of Women's Biography [Ref  CT  3202  .C66] edited by Jennifer S. Uglow
  • The Dictionary of Art [Ref  N  31  .D5] edited by Jane Turner
  • Women's Studies Encyclopedia [Ref  HQ  1115  .W645] edited by Helen Tierney

 

Directories

·         Who’s Who in American Art.  (Latest edition.) [Ref  N  6536  .W5]

·         Who's Who of American Women, a Biographical Dictionary of Notable Living American Women.  (Latest edition.) [Ref  CT  3260  .W5]

 

Biographical Sources 

  • American Women Sculptors:  a History of Women Working in Three Dimensions [NB  236  .R8] by Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein
  • Artist and Identity in Twentieth-Century America [N 6512 .B25 2001 2001] by Matthew Baigell
  • Contemporary Artists [Ref  N  6490  .C6567] edited by Colin Naylor
  • Flowering in the Shadows:  Women in the History of Chinese and Japanese Painting [ND  1040  .F58]
  • Making Their Mark:  Women Artists Move into the Mainstream, 1970-85 [N  6512  .M27]
  • Marble Queens and Captives:  Women in Nineteenth-Century American Sculpture [NB  1210  .M3  K3] by Joy S. Kasson
  • Special Visions:  Profiles of Fifteen Women Artists from the Renaissance to the Present Day [N  43  .O6] by Olga S. Opfell

 

DVD’s & Videocassettes

  • The Life and Times of Frida Kahlo [DVD ND 259 .K33 L54]
  • Mary Cassatt: A Brush with Independence [DVD ND 237 .C3 M37]
  • Women Artists:  the Other Side of the Picture [VidC  N  8354  .W66]
  • African Art, Women, History of the Luba People of Central Africa [VidC  N  5310.5  .C6x  A45]
  • Georgia OKeeffe [VidC ND 237 .O5 G4]
  • Isabel Bishop: Portrait of an Artist [VidC ND 237 .B594 I72]
  • Picturing the Genders [VidC NX 164 .W65 P53]

 

Ø      SUGGESTED DATABASES & INDEXES FOR LOCATING PERIODICAL ARTICLES on WOMEN ARTISTS

 

Academic Search Premier                                                  INFOTRAC Web

Art Full Text                                                                     JSTOR

Bibliography of the History of Art                                                New York Times Index

Grove Art Online                                                               ProQuest Research Library Complete

 

A few frequently used PERIODICALS on WOMEN ARTISTS are:

Art Bulletin                                                ArtForum

Art History                                                            Art in America

Art International                                        Art Journal

Artnews                                                     Artweek

Woman’s Art Journal

 

PERIODICAL titles held by the library can be identified by clicking the PERIODICAL HOLDINGS link under “Find Articles” on the library website at http://www.una.edu/library  or by searching in UNACAT.

 

INTERLIBRARY LOAN -  it is possible to borrow books or obtain copies of articles from other libraries if the material is unavailable locally.  Inquire at the Reference Desk or consult the library’s web site for policy information and request forms at: http://www.una.edu/library/illindex.htm. 

 

Ø      SUGGESTED WEBSITES

 

 

  • Distinguished Women of Past and Present – Art

http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/subject/art.html

 

·         National Museum of Women In The Arts

http://nmwa.org

 

·         Images of Women in Ancient Art

http://www.arthistory.sbc.edu/imageswomen

 

·         Varo Registry of Women Artists

http://www.varoregistry.com

 

·         Women Artists Through Time

http://www.uwrf.edu/history/women.html

 

·         Women Artists – Self Portraits & Representations of Womanhood From The Medieval Period - Present

http://www.csupomona.edu/~plin/women/womenart.html

 

·         Women Artists of the American West – Past and Present

http://www.cla.purdue.edu/WAAW/

 

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