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Women Artists Scope: This is a selective guide to sources of information on women artists. Email the subject area specialist at lwg@umd.edu or call 301-405-9064 for more information. Table of Contents Bibliographies Encyclopedias and Dictionaries Indexes and Abstracts Biographical Sources Readings Journals Museum and Exhibition Catalogues CD-ROMS Library of Congress Subject Headings Vertical Files Internet Resources BIBLIOGRAPHIES Anderson, Janet A. Women in the Fine Arts: A Bibliography and Illustration Guide. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1991. LOCATION: ART REF CALL NUMBER: N8354.A53 1991 Chiarmonte, Paula, ed. Women Artists in the United States: A Selective Bibliography and Resource Guide on the Fine and Decorative Arts, 1750-1986. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1990. LOCATION: ART REF CALL NUMBER: N65536.W65 1990 The CD-ROM version, entitled Women Artists on Disc, is also available. Feministische Bibliografie zur Frauenforschung in der Kunstgeschichte. Pfaffenweiler: Centaurus, 1993. LOCATION: ART STACKS CALL NUMBER: N8354.F46 1993 Kreisel, Martha. American Women Photographers: A Selected and Annotated Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999. LOCATION: ART REF CALL NUMBER: TR139.K74 1999 Langer, Cassandra L. Feminist Art Criticism: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: G.K.Hall, 1993. LOCATION: ART STACKS CALL NUMBER: N72.F45L26 1993 The CD-ROM version, entitled Women Artists on Disc, is also available. McCracken, Penny. Women Artists and Designers in Europe Since 1800: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: G.K. Hall, 1998. LOCATION: ART REF CALL NUMBER: N6757.M33 1998 The CD-ROM version, entitled Women Artists on Disc, is also available. Palmquist, Peter E. A Bibliography of Writings By and About Women in Photography, 1850-1950. San Bernardino, CA: Borgo Press, 1994. LOCATION: ART STACKS CALL NUMBER: Z7134.P35 1994 Piland, Sherry. Women Artists: An Historical, Contemporary and Feminist Bibliography. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1994. LOCATION: ART REF CALL NUMBER: N8354.P55 1994 Puerto, Cecilia. Latin American Women Artists, Kahlo and Look Who Else: A Selective, Annotated Bibliography. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996. LOCATION: ART REF CALL NUMBER: N6502.5.P83 1996 Puniello, Francoise S. Abstract Expressionist Women Painters: An Annotated Bibliography. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1996. LOCATION: ART REF CALL NUMBER: ND212.5.A25P86 1996 Roake, JoAnne. Women Artists: A Selected Bibliography. Sacramento, CA: Library, California State University, 1977. LOCATION: ART FOLIO CALL NUMBER: N8354.R6 Tufts, Eleanor. American Women Artists Past and Present: A Selected Bibliographic Guide. New York: Garland, 1984. LOCATION: ART REF CALL NUMBER: N6505.T83 1984 "Women Artists: A Resource and Research Guide." Art Documentation. vol.1 no. 5 (October 1982). LOCATION: ART FOLIO CALL NUMBER: Z5937.A181 return to top ENCYCLOPEDIAS and DICTIONARIES Contemporary Artists. London: St. James Press, 1977-. LOCATION: ART FOLIO CALL NUMBER: N6490.C6567 Latest edition in Reference. Dunford, Penny. Biographical Dictionary of Women Artists in Europe and America Since 1850. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989. LOCATION: ART REF CALL NUMBER: N6757.D86 1989 Gaze, Delia, Ed. Concise Dictionary of Women Artists. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2001. LOCATION: ART REF CALL NUMBER: N8354.D532 2001 Gaze, Delia, Ed. Dictionary of Women Artists. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1997. LOCATION: ART REF CALL NUMBER: N8354.D53 1997 vols. 1-2 Kovinick, Phil. An Encyclopedia of Women Artists of the American West. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998. LOCATION: ART FOLIO CALL NUMBER: N8214.5.U6K68 1998 North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary. New York: Garland, 1995. LOCATION: ART REF CALL NUMBER: N6503.N67 1995 Petteys, Chris. Dictionary of Women Artists: An International Dictionary of Women Artists Born Before 1900. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1985. LOCATION: ART REF CALL NUMBER: N43.P47 1985 The CD-ROM version, entitled Women Artists on Disc, is also available. Prather-Moses, Alice. The International Dictionary of Women Workers in the Decorative Arts. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1981. LOCATION: MCK REF CALL NUMBER: HD6069.P7 Turner, Jane, ed. Grove Dictionary of Art. New York: Grove, 1996. LOCATION: ART REF CALL NUMBER: N31.D5 1996 Who's Who in American Art. New York: R. R. Bowker, 1936-. LOCATION: ART REF CALL NUMBER: N6536.W5 return to top INDEXES AND ABSTRACTS ARTbibliographies Modern. Santa Barbara, CA: Clio Press, Inc., 1974-. LCATION: ART REF CALL NUMBER: Z5935.A7 Also available in print, 1969- . Art Index Retrospective (1929-1984) and Art Abstracts (1984-present.) New York: H.W. Wilson (1929- ). In print as Art Index, 1929-1996. LOCATION: ART REF CALL NUMBER: Z5937.A78 Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA). Santa Monica, CA: J. Paul Getty Trust, Getty Art History Information Program, 1973-. In print, 1991-. LOCATION: ART REF CALL NUMBER: N1.A1B52 Women's Resources International. Baltimore, MD: National Informations Services, Corp., 1972- . Includes Women's Studies Abstracts, Women Studies Index (see below) and a number of other databases. Women Studies Abstracts. Rush, NY: Women Studies Abstracts, 1972- . LOCATION: MCK REF CALL NUMBER: Z7962.W65 Women's Studies Index. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1989-1991. LOCATION: MCK REF CALL NUMBER: HQ1180.W68 1989 return to top BIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES (see also ENCYCLOPEDIAS and DICTIONARIES) Indexes McNeil, Barbara, ed. Artist Biographies Master Index. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1986. LOCATION: ART REF CALL NUMBER: N40.A78 1986 Sources Agosin, Marjorie, ed. A Woman's Gaze: Latin American Women Artists. Fredonia, NY: White Pine Press, 1998. LOCATION: ART STACKS CALL NUMBER: NX501.5.W66 1998 Beckett, Wendy. Contemporary Women Artists. New York: Universe Books, 1988. LOCATION: ART FOLIO CALL NUMBER: N72.F45B43 1988 Bentivoglio, Mirella. The Women Artists of Italian Futurism: Almost Lost to History. New York: Midmarch Art Press, 1997. LOCATION: ART STACKS CALL NUMBER: NX552.A1B46 1997 Chadwick, Whitney. Women, Art, and Society. 3rd ed. New York: Thames and Hudson, 2002. LOCATION: ART STACKS CALL NUMBER: N8354.C48 2002 Collins, Jim. Women Artists in America: 18th Century to the Present (1790-1980). Poughkeepsie, NY: Apollo, 1980. LOCATION: ART REF CALL NUMBER: N6536.C523 1980 Farris, Phoebe, ed. Women Artists of Color: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook to 20th Century Artists in the Americas. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999. LOCATION: ART REF CALL NUMBER: N8354.W656 1999 Gumbo Ya Ya: Anthology of Contemporary African-American Women Artists. New York: Midmarch Arts Press, 1995. LOCATION: ART REF CALL NUMBER: N6538.N5G85 1995 Henkes, Robert. The Art of Black American Women: Works of Twenty-Four Artists of the Twentieth Century. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1993. LOCATION: ART STACKS CALL NUMBER: N6538.N5H45 1993 Henkes, Robert. Latin American Women Artists of the United States: The Works of 33 Twentieth-Century Women. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1999. LOCATION: ART REF CALL NUMBER: N6538.H58H46 1999 Kathe, Paula und der Ganze Rest. Berlin: Kupfergraben, 1992. LOCATION: ART REF CALL NUMBER: N6887.K28 1992 Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move Into the Mainstream, 1970-85. New York: Abbeville Press, 1988. LOCATION: ART STACKS CALL NUMBER: N6512.M27 1989 Marsh, Jan. Pre-Raphaelite Women Artists. Manchester: Manchester City Art Galleries, 1997. LOCATION: ART STACKS CALL NUMBER: N6767.5.P7M385 1997 Martin, Elizabeth. Female Gazes: Seventy-Five Women Artists. Toronto: Second Story Press, 1997. LOCATION: ART STACKS CALL NUMBER: N8354.M37 1997 Rosenblum, Naomi. A History of Women Photographers. New York: Abbeville Press, 1994. LOCATION: ART FOLIO CALL NUMBER: TR139.R67 1994 Waller, Susan. Women Artists in the Modern Era: A Documentary History. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1991. LOCATION: ART STACKS CALL NUMBER: N43.W26 1991 return to top READINGS Broude, Norma and Mary D. Garrard, eds. The Power of Feminist Art: The American Movement of the 1970's, History and Impact. New York: H.N. Abrams, 1994. LOCATION: ART FOLIO CALL NUMBER: N72.F45P68 1994 Isaak, Jo Anna. Feminism and Contemporary Art: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Laughter. New York: Routledge, 1996. LOCATION: ART STACKS CALL NUMBER: N72.F45I82 1996 Kavalier-Adler, Susan. The Compulsion to Create: A Psychoanalytic Study of Women Artists. New York: Routledge, 1993. LOCATION: MCK REF CALL NUMBER: RC451.4.A96K38 1993 Meskimmon, Marsha. The Art of Reflection: Women Artists' Self-Portraiture in the Twentieth Century. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. LOCATION: ART STACKS CALL NUMBER: N71.M45 1996 Pollock, Griselda, ed. Generations & Geographies in the Visual Arts: Feminist Readings. New York: Routledge, 1996. LOCATION: ART STACKS CALL NUMBER: N72.F45G46 Witzling, Mara R. Voicing Today's Visions: Writings by Contemporary Women Artists. New York: Universe, 1994. LOCATION: ART STACKS, MCK STACKS CALL NUMBER: N8354.V59 1994 return to top JOURNALS Heresies. New York: Heresies Collective, Inc., 1977/78-1990/93. LOCATION: ART FOLIO CALL NUMBER: NX180.F4H4 n.paradoxa. London: KT Press, 1996- . LOCATION: ART STACKS CALL NUMBER: N72.F45 N737 http://web.ukonline.co.uk/n.paradoxa National Update. Philadelphia: Women's Caucus for Art National Office, 1989-1996. LOCATION: ART FOLIO CALL NUMBER: NX180.F4N3 Woman's Art Journal. Knoxville, TN: Woman's Art, Inc., 1980/1981- . LOCATION: ART FOLIO CALL NUMBER: N72.F45W64 Women Artists Newsletter. New York: Midmarch Associations, 1978- . LOCATION: ART FOLIO CALL NUMBER: HQ1389.W6 Women in the Arts. Washington, DC: National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1991- . LOCATION: CURPER Latest year only. return to top MUSEUM AND EXHIBITION CATALOGUES Indexes The Art Book Biannual. Ithaca, NY: Worldwide Books, 1992-. LOCATION: ART REF CALL NUMBER: N1.A781 Worldwide Art Catalogue Bulletin. Boston: Worldwide Books, 1963/64-1986. LOCATION: ART REF CALL NUMBER: Z5939.W6 Catalogues Bearing Witness: Contemporary Works by African American Women Artists. New York: Spelman College and Rizzoli International Publications, 1996. LOCATION: ART FOLIO CALL NUMBER: N6538.N5B43 1996 Heller, Nancy. Women Artists: Works from the National Museum of Women in the Arts. Washington, D.C.: National Museum of Women in the Arts, 2000. LOCATION: ART FOLIO CALL NUMBER: N858.N36A88 2000 Inside the Visible: An Elliptical Traverse of 20th Century Art In, Of, and From the Feminine. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1996. LOCATION: ART FOLIO CALL NUMBER: N8354.I58 1996 National Museum of Women in the Arts. New York: Abrams, 1987. LOCATION: ART FOLIO CALL NUMBER: N858.N36A56 1987 Mary H. Dana Women Artists Series: 25th Year Retrospective. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Libraries, 1996. LOCATION: ART STACKS CALL NUMBER: N8354.M27 1996 return to top CD-ROMS The National Museum of Women in the Arts Collection. Columbus, OH: McGraw-Hill Home Interactive, 1997. LOCATION: AUTOM CALL NUMBER: N858.N36A64 1997 Women Artists on Disc. New York: G. K. Hall, 1999. LOCATION: AUTOM CALL NUMBER: N43.W63 1999 return to top LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SUBJECT HEADINGS Use the following subject headings when searching the online catalog and the periodical indexes listed above. WOMEN ART WOMEN ARTISTS WOMEN ARTISTS BIOGRAPHY WOMEN ARTISTS PSYCHOLOGY WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHY (or other medium) AFRO AMERICAN WOMEN ARTISTS FEMINISM ART return to top VERTICAL FILES The Art Library Vertical Files include press releases, gallery notices, small exhibition catalogues and other materials which can be particularly useful in researching emerging artists who may not yet be the subject of books or journal articles. Browse the online index. return to top INTERNET RESOURCES Information about many women artists is available on the Internet. Links to several excellent sites are provided below: ACRL Women's Studies Section: Women & Art Sites http://college.library.wisc.edu/~carrie/wss/womenart.htm Artcyclopedia: Women Artists http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/women.html Australian Women's Art Register http://yarranet.net.au/womar/womar1.htm Catalog of Links Keyed to Whitney Chadwick’s Women, Art, and Society http://www.bluffton.edu/womenartists/contents.html Distinguished Women of Past and Present http://www.DistinguishedWomen.com/subject/art.html Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index http://www.haverford.edu/library/reference/mschaus/mfi/mfi.html Guerrilla Girls http://www.guerrillagirls.com National Museum of Women in the Arts http://www.nmwa.org 700 Important Women Artists: 9th-19th Centuries http://www.uwrf.edu/history/women.html The Varo Registry of Women Artists http://www.varoregistry.com/ Women Artists Archive http://libweb.sonoma.edu/special.html Women Artists in Canada http://collections.ic.gc.ca/waic/collection.htm Women Artists of the American West http://www.sla.purdue.edu/WAAW/ Women Artists of the 20th Century http://www.csupomona.edu/~plin/women2/women2.html Women Artists: Self-Portraits & Representations of Womanhood from the Medieval Period to the Present http://www.csupomona.edu/~plin/women/womenart.html The World's Women On-Line http://wwol.inre.asu.edu/toc.html return to top


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