women artists

Presents paintings and rare historical photographs that provide insights into the life and artistic style of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo.

Text and illustrations describe the samplers, paintings, quilts, needlepictures, and other handiwork of 18th and 19th-century American women.

A two-DVD set that tells the true-life stories of Argentina's famous first lady, Eva Peron, who rose above childhood poverty to achieve fortune and fame, and artist Frida Kahlo and her controversial relationship with artist Diego Rivera and scandalous affairs.

American-born painter Mary Cassatt grew up in Pennsylvania but spent the better part of her life and career in France, yet that did not prevent her from gaining a preeminent position among artists in the United States. At the height of her career, she focused almost exclusively on depictions of mothers and children, a subject that became her signature theme. By the outbreak of World War I, Cassatt had to give up painting entirely due to failing eyesight, but she preserved her original enthusiasm and devotion to art until the end of her life.

During her long and distinguished career, which developed to its highest level in the deserts of the American Southwest, Georgia O?Keeffe pioneered an artistic style that dominated the art of twentieth-century America. Unique in its organic, abstract expression, her vision and passion identify her as a lifelong master of modern art. With crystalline clarity and a vivid sensuous feeling for both objects and landscapes, O?Keeffe painted life studies that were to distinguish her as an original and adventurous painter. Her studies of flowers, bones, cityscapes, and southwestern landscapes have become some of the most recognizable images in modern art.

"[Showcases] the work of dozens of . . . women artists alongside creative prompts . . . Interviews, images, and stories from contemporary women artists at the top of their game provide added inspiration, and historical spotlights on art 'herstory' tie in the work of pioneering women from the past"--Provided by publisher.

"Tells the true stories of women creators and thinkers from around the world"--Back cover.

"Penelope Grand has scrapped her failed career as an artist in Pittsburgh and moved back to Brooklyn to keep an eye on her ailing father. She's accepted that her future won't be what she'd dreamed, but now, as gentrification has completely reshaped her old neighborhood, even her past is unrecognizable. Old haunts have been razed, and wealthy white strangers have replaced every familiar face in Bed-Stuy. Even her mother, Mirella, has abandoned the family to reclaim her roots in the Dominican Republic. That took courage ... When Penelope moves into the attic apartment of the affluent Harpers, she thinks she's found a semblance of family, and maybe even love. But her world is upended again when she receives a postcard from Mirella asking for reconciliation. As old wounds are reopened, and secrets revealed, a journey across an ocean of sacrifice and self-discovery begins"--Provided by publisher.

Maggie is a successful young artist who has had bad luck with men with the last one putting her in the hospital. After physically healing she needs to get out of London and find a quiet place to heal mentally. She finds the ruins of a cottage on the west coast of Ireland that dates back to the Great Famine and decides to buy it. After work on the house is done she invites friends to come help her celebrate over a weekend. One of her friends pulls out a Ouija board on the last night and unleashes something sinister from Irelands' haunted past that reaches back in time to pagan times.

"This book chronicles the lives and art of 15 often overlooked female artists from the Renaissance to the modern day"--Provided by publisher.