Women Artists of the West: Five Portraits in Creativity and Courage

by Julie Danneberg

Overview

Told in a unique first-person creative nonfiction narrative, Women Artists of the West profiles five important women artists who lived, worked, and created in the early years of the twentieth century—Georgia O'Keeffe, Maria Martinez, Dorothea Lange, Laura Gilpin, Mary-Russell Colton.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781555918613
Publisher:	Fulcrum Publishing
Publication date:	09/01/2002
Series:	Notable Western Women
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.30(d)
Age Range:	8 - 12 Years

About the Author

Julie Danneberg, a third-generation Colorado native, grew up listening to stories about her grandmother, a miner's daughter, and her great-grandmother, an Irish immigrant turned miner's wife. Love of these women and their stories started her lifelong admiration of all courageous women of the West.

Table of Contents

	Map	vi
	Introduction	vii
	Maria Martinez	1
	Georgia O'Keeffe	17
	Laura Gilpin	33
	Dorothea Lange	49
	Mary-Russell Colton	67
	Index	81