Anna Richards Brewster, American Impressionist

by Brewster, Anna Richards

• ISBN13: 9780520257498
• ISBN10: 0520257499
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-08-01
• Publisher: Univ of California Pr

Summary

Anna Richards Brewster, American Impressionistis the first in-depth study of an artist whose name is not well-known today but who was one of the most successful women artists of her time. This beautifully illustrated book, catalog to the exhibition of the same name, provides a fascinating look at the turn-of-the-twentieth-century art world as experienced by a woman artist. Anna Richards Brewster (1870-1952) began painting at age ten, studied with William Merritt Chase and John LaFarge, and trained at Acadeacute;mie Julian in Paris. She was a prolific painter of landscapes, portraits, and illustrations who showed her work regularly until the 1930s. In this volume, curator Judith Kafka Maxwell revives Brewster's work while exploring the contradictions common to women like her--those whose professional ambitions were neither supported nor encouraged by institutions or patrons. An introduction by Wanda M. Corn situates the artist in her social and cultural milieu, and essays by art historian Leigh Culver and American historian Kirsten Swinth explore the works themselves, the artist's education, and the post-Civil War rise of women artists. The result is a rich history of an artist and her time that makes vivid the obstacles faced by female artists in the early twentieth century.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Introduction	p. 2
Anna Richards Brewster: A Biographical Sketch	p. 6
"Unexpressible Paradoxes": Anna Ricahrds Brewster's Life in Art	p. 18
Getting the "Crop": Anna Richards Brewster in Her Art and Of Her Time	p. 50
"Women Artists of Real Ability and With Serious Purposes": Anna Richards Brewster Among Her Peers	p. 88
The Plates	p. 112
Chronology and Exhibition History	p. 179
Checklist of the Exhibition	p. 185
Selected References	p. 191
Photograph Credits	p. 195
Authors' Biographies	p. 197
Index	p. 199
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