This influential figure in pre-WW1 Paris has become much better known in recent years - as is evident from this fine Yale publication and the exhibition at the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphi... read more
Her sitters don't actually sit; they choose plants instead, which KF photographs in the sitter's own space - studio, home, etc. They include Piet Oudolf, Isabella Tree, Tania Compton, Margot... read more
The Tate exhibition is a retrospective of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, but it also features the largest exhibition there has been of Elizabeth Siddal's work. (There is also a paperback edition of... read more
This woman photographer experimented with several techniques - including solarisation - and pioneered the use of colour photography in the 1930s.To accompany the exhibition this summer and e... read more
Nearly 600 letters from the pre-Raphaelite model who became the wife of William Morris and the lover of Dante Gabriel Rosetti. An impeccably researched, annotated and edited work, this first... read more
Bridges was an American painter(1834-1923). Her oddly static pictures of birds and flowers were celebrated during her lifetime and display a startling intensity.
Cooper (1916-1992) studied at the Grosvenor School of Modern Art and was beginning to make a name for herself when her career was interrupted by WW2. Other careers followed... Her work is ch... read more
Artemisia Gentileschi's father was a friend of Caravaggio, and she his greatest successor. This is the first catalogue dedicated entirely to Gentileschi's astonishing work.
A fine book on the first woman artist of European standing, with special emphasis on her impact in England where she was the first female member of the Royal Academy of Arts.