The Boston Lady as a Work of Art: Paintings by The Boston School at the Turn of the Century
Softcover
1980 · New York
by Leader, Bernice Kramer
New York: Columbia University, 1980. Softcover. VG- (Text can be read; duplicated BW illus. are barely discernible, as often happens with this process.). Dissertation. Photocopied from microfilm by UMI. Black wraps, 455 pp., 154 BW illus. Dissertation. "The purpose of this study is both to interpret the content of paintings of women by the Boston school at the turn of the century, and to place them stylistically within the broader context of American and European art. ... Boston artists were considered a distinctive school of American painting from about 1890 to 1918, but because they specialized in the subject of leisure class women in domestic interiors, they participated in expressing the dominant American theme of the period, the ideal woman." (abstract) Author Leader went on to establish her own art consulting business. (Inventory #: 142534)