Restless enterprise : the art and life of Eliza Pratt Greatorex /
"Eliza Pratt Greatorex (1819-1897) was America's most famous woman artist in the mid-nineteenth century, but today she is all but forgotten. Beginning with her Irish roots, this biography brings her art and life back into focus. Unusually for a woman, she specialized in landscape and stree...
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| Language: | English |
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Oakland, California :
University of California Press,
[2020]
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| Summary: | "Eliza Pratt Greatorex (1819-1897) was America's most famous woman artist in the mid-nineteenth century, but today she is all but forgotten. Beginning with her Irish roots, this biography brings her art and life back into focus. Unusually for a woman, she specialized in landscape and streetscapes, traveling from the Hudson River to the Colorado Rockies and across Europe and North Africa. Her magnum opus-graphics of Old New York- awakened the public to the destruction of the city's architectural heritage during the post-Civil War era. Exploring Greatorex's fierce ambition and creative path, Katherine Manthorne reveals how one woman forged an independent career in a male-dominated world to help shape American gender politics, visual culture, and urban consciousness"-- |
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| Physical Description: | x, 337 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520355507 0520355504 |