Esther Pressoir : a modern woman's painter /
"Coming of age in the 1920s, Stella, as she was known to her friends, cast off societal expectations of a working-class immigrant family in New England and moved through the studios, galleries, and nightclubs of New York. Following an unprecedented 18,000 km bicycle trip across Europe in 1927,...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Lund Humphries,
2023.
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| Summary: | "Coming of age in the 1920s, Stella, as she was known to her friends, cast off societal expectations of a working-class immigrant family in New England and moved through the studios, galleries, and nightclubs of New York. Following an unprecedented 18,000 km bicycle trip across Europe in 1927, where she kept a daily journal and made hundreds of sketches, Pressoir developed an expressionistic style that straddled figuration and abstraction. She made provocative renderings of the female nude that challenged historical models, including unabashed self-portraits and intimate depictions of her longtime muse, a dancer from Harlem named Florita. Pressoir' s work is illuminated here in an examination of her private travel journal, letters, and numerous paintings, prints and drawings, some of which were recovered from the veritable time capsule of her art studio after she died. Placing Pressoir' s work in relation to trailblazing contemporaries such as Alice Neel, Florine Stettheimer and Suzanne Valadon, this book establishes Pressoir as a force to be reckoned with in the decades of emergent feminism and modern art in America and restores her to her rightful place in the expanding canon of art." --publisher. |
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| Item Description: | "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. |
| Physical Description: | 152 pages : color illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliography (pages 145-146) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781848226005 1848226004 |