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Independent spirits : women painters of the American West, 1890-1945 - Berkeley : Autry Museum of Western Heritage in association with the University of California Press, c1995. - xiii, 304 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 29 cm.

Catalog of an exhibition of the same name organized by the Autry Museum of Western Heritage.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 274-292) and index.

Introduction : women envision the West, 1890-1945 / Virginia Scharff -- Searching for selfhood : women artists of Northern California / Susan Landauer -- "Islands on the land" : women traditionalists of Southern California / Patricia Trenton -- The adventuresome, the eccentrics, and the dreamers : women modernists of Southern California / Ilene Susan Fort -- Northwestern exposure / Vicki Halper -- No woman's land : Arizona adventurers / Sarah J. Moore -- Inner voices, outward forms : women painters in New Mexico / Sandra D'Emilio and Sharyn Udall -- Lone star spirits / Susan Landauer with Becky Duval Reese -- "I must paint" : women artists of the Rocky Mountain region / Erika Doss -- Cultivating the grasslands : women painters in the Great Plains / Joni L. Kinsey.

ISBN: 0520202023 (acidfree paper) 0520202031 (pbk. : acidfree paper)

LCCN: 95017367

Nat. Bib. No.: GB96-18051

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Painting, American--West (U.S.)--19th century--Exhibitions.
Painting, American--West (U.S.)--20th century--Exhibitions.
Women painters--West (U.S.)--Exhibitions.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
West (U.S.)--In art--Exhibitions.

LC Class. No.: ND225 / .I53 1995

Dewey Class. No.: 759.18/082