Women in Tennessee History: A Bibliography
Visual Arts
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Background & Reference Works


Anderson, Janet A. Women in the Fine Arts: A Bibliography and Illustration Guide. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1991.

Chiarmonte, Paula. Women Artists in the United States: A Selective Bibliography and Resource Guide on the Fine and Decorative Arts, 1750-1986. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1990. 997p.

Krumholz, Linda, and Etella Lauter. "Annotated Bibliography on Feminist Aesthetics in the Visual Arts." Hypatia 5 (Summer 1990): 158-72.

Piland, Sherry. Women Artists: An Historical, Contemporary, and Feminist Bibliography. 2d ed. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow, 1994. 454p.

Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer. American Women Artists: From Early Indian Times to the Present. Boston, Mass.: G.K. Hall, 1982.

Tennessee: From the Mountains to the Mississippi. Knoxville: The Tennessee Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1993.
Presents the recent works of 11 Tennessee women artists. Includes a color photograph of one work for each artist, a photograph of each artist, and an artist's statement of the influences in her work.



Biographical Index


  • Avent, Mary Treanor
  • Carl, Kate Augusta
  • Chester, Rebecca
  • Conley, Sara Ward
  • Cushman, Nancy Cox-McCormack
  • Daviess, Maria Thompson
  • Derryberry, Joan
  • Hergesheimer, Ella Sophonisba
  • Hale, Martha
  • Harvey, Bessie
  • Kinney, Belle
  • McCormack Cushman, Nancy Cox
  • McIntyre, Florence
  • Miles, Emma Bell
  • Newman, Willie Betty
  • Nourse, Elizabeth
  • Potter, Bertha Herbert
  • Reed, Veda
  • Sayre, Maggie Lee
  • Thompson, Frances Euphemia

    Articles, Books, and Theses

    Walker, Celia, "A Century of Progress: Twentieth Century Painting in Tennessee." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 61 (Spring 2002) 4-8.



    Manuscripts/SpecialCollections


    Cox-McCormack, Nancy. Papers, 1911-65. Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville.

    McIntyre, Florence. Papers, Ca. 1914-62. Memphis Room, Memphis-Shelby County Public Library and Information Center.

    Whitley-Newman Papers, 1835-1983. Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville. Microfilm.



    Women in Tennessee History: A Bibliography
    Ken Middleton kmiddlet@frank.mtsu.edu
    Todd Library, Middle Tennessee State University