Women in the Fine Arts by Clara Erskine Clement Waters is a pioneering biographical dictionary of women painters, sculptors, and engravers from the seventh century B.C. to the early twentieth. Arranged alphabetically, it gathers brief lives and accounts of the works of hundreds of women artists across more than two and a half millennia.
At a time when women’s contributions to art were widely overlooked, the book served as an important act of recovery and remains a useful reference. It documents a long tradition of female achievement in the fine arts. This free EPUB download is cleanly formatted for any e-reader.