Women Picturing Women

Download or read book Women Picturing Women written by Patricia Phagan and published by Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center. This book was released on 2021 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Beginning in 1877 with Vassar College's first commission of a female artist to portray a contemporary female figure, through the ensuing years, the work of an increasing number of women artists was exhibited in various College buildings and discussed in print, including paintings by Lilly Martin Spencer, Cecilia Beaux, and Mary Cassatt. Women Picturing Women traces the history of artists and artists' subjects at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College"--