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Two women stand in front of two fabric quilts hanging on a gallery wall.
National Museum of Women in the Arts

Making a Living: Women Artists Illustrating Books

Clare Leighton's book, Where Land Meets Sea: the Tide Line of Cape Cod (1954), and a letter written by her to friend Clara Klinghoffer, 1955.
Mar 26 to Jul 27, 2018

Exhibition Note

Information about this exhibition is limited.

Many women artists in the first half of the twentieth century found work illustrating books. Working for large or niche publishing houses, creating cartoons or caricatures, or writing and illustrating their own books, these women managed careers as illustrators while also working for recognition as painters and printmakers.

Featuring books and archival documentation, the exhibition includes artists such as Edna Reindel, Vanessa Bell, and Loïs Mailou Jones.

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