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Esther Pressoir : a modern woman's painter

Title
Esther Pressoir : a modern woman's painter / Suzanne M. Scanlan.
Author
Scanlan, Suzanne M.
Publication
London : Lund Humphries, 2023.

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Additional Authors
Pressoir, Esther
Alternative Title
A modern woman's painter.
Subject
  • Pressoir, Esther
  • Women artists > United States > 20th century > Biography
  • Modernism (Art) > United States
  • Bicycle touring > Europe > History > 20th century
  • Artists' models
Note
  • "This book is an introduction to the life and wide-ranging oeuvre of the American modern painter, printmaker and ceramicist, Esther Estelle (Stella) Pressoir (1902-86). Pressoir graduated from the Department of Freehand Drawing and Painting at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1923."-- Preface, page 9.
  • Facsimile on endpapers.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliography (pages 145-146) and index.
Contents
Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Artist, model, model artist: Esther Pressoir's formal education -- Three women and a bicycle: Esther, Helen and 'B' -- New York: 'The emotional intimacies of her imaginative brain' -- From the studio to the boudoir: Pressoir and the nude -- Call her 'Florita' -- Conclusion -- Appendix: selections from Esther Pressor's travel journals -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Image credits -- Index.
Call Number
N6537.P685
ISBN
  • 1848226004
  • 9781848226005
LCCN
40032360170
OCLC
  • on1391094562
  • 1391094562
  • SCSB-15069879
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries