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Title: Independent Spirits: Women Painters of the American West, 1890-1945 by Patricia Trenton, Sandra D'Emilio, Autry Museum of Western Heritage, Virginia Scharff ISBN: 0520202031 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95

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Summary: The artist as pioneer
Comment: This book about women painters of American West from 1890 to 1945 shows and talks about art and paintings. Reading its words and seeing its paintings was an experience over which I may not get. From the moment I opened the book I entered a new world of color landscape shapes figures flowers abstractions and movement. How did so many creative and talented people escape historical recognition and fame? Many of the artists in this book had to wage war with themselves, family, society and some won - mostly those with financial means, time to themselves, art education, human support and they succeeded as free spirits in the world of art. Independent Spirits is a study of pioneers who expressed themselves using artists' tools. For most fame eluded them while they made history by painting, teaching, building of museums and art schools, encouragement of public interest in visual arts and redefinition of feminine art.

Myra Miller of the Great Plains (1882 to 1961) painted game birds which she froze and painted in a cold room in the winter. She set up her own still lifes of birds and guns on panels and the paintings were 2' x4'. The subjects became the essential and yet ordinary stuff of life rendered so painstakingly as beautiful to behold, characteristic of her world and perhaps bounty for the family table.

Why the West? Why did O'Keefe feel compelled as an artist to leave the city and apartment dwelling for the open space of the west?

Independent Spirits tells of women set free to live creative lives determined to express record persevere and interpret what they saw - for themselves and for unknown and unseen viewers.