Women Artists and English Exhibiting Societies
This chapter follows these women students and their subsequent professional development, concentrating in particular on the exhibition groups that they became affiliated with or participated in between 1900 and 1914. The focus is on the New English Art Cl
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London’s Women Artists, 1900–1914 A Talented and Decorative Group
London’s Women Artists, 1900–1914
Mengting Yu
London’s Women Artists, 1900–1914 A Talented and Decorative Group
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Mengting Yu Independent Scholar Boulder, CO, USA
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Preface
Despite substantial art historical research on British painters working at the beginning of the twentieth century, little is known about women artists who inhabited and contributed to London’s vibrant art scene. This book takes its starting point from Alicia Foster’s article “Gwen John’s Self-Portrait: Art, Identity and Women Students at the Slade School,” published in 2000, where “a talented and decorative group” was used to describe common attitudes toward women artists in the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century London. This pejorative attribution implied st
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