The life of artist Nora Heysen was defined by an all-consuming drive to draw or paint. The first woman to win the Archibald Prize, and Australia's first female painter to be appointed an official war artist, Heysen's post-war portraiture and still lifes sustained a lifelong care…
"This collection of new essays by specialist authors addresses women's activities as patrons and as 'patronized' artists over the course of the century. It provides a much needed examination, with admirable breadth and variety, of women's artistic production and patronage during…
For well over a thousand years Chinese and Japanese women made, commissioned, collected, and used paintings, yet until very recently this was scarcely acknowledged in the study of East Asian art history. This ground-breaking anthology reveals the depth and diversity of women's i…
