Some 130 American women artists from the 18th century to the present are profiled, with each entry presenting basic biographical information and a description of the artist's achievements and contributions. About 50 b&w photos of artists are included, and there are a few additional photos depicting artwork. Indexes list women by artistic genre and decade of birth. Kort is a freelance writer with a BA in comparative literature; Sonneborn is the author or coauthor of 20 nonfiction books for adults and children. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-238) and index.

Abbott, Berenice Albers, Anni Alvarez, Mabel Arbus, Diane Asawa, Ruth Aycock, Alice Baca, Judith Francisca Bacon, Peggy Bartlett, Jennifer Losch Bascom, Ruth Henshaw Miles Beaux, Cecilia Bishop, Isabel Wolff Blaine, Nell Bourgeois, Louise Bourke-White, Margaret Bridges, Fidelia Brooks, Romaine Brownscombe, Jennie Augusta Burke, Selma Hortense Cassatt, Mary Stevenson Chase-Riboud, Barbara Chicago, Judy Cohen Chryssa Coman, Charlotte Buell Cunningham, Imogen de Kooning, Elaine Marie Catherine Fried Dewing, Maria Oakey Dreier, Katherine Sophie Dwight, Mabel Jacque Williamson Eakins, Susan Hannah Macdowell Eberle, Mary Abastenia St. Leger Fine, Perle Fish, Janet Flack, Audrey Frank, Mary Lockspeiser Frankenthaler, Helen Freilicher, Jane Niederhoffer Fuller, Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller, Sue Goldin, Nan Goodridge, Sarah Goody, Joan Edelman Graves, Nancy Stevenson Greenwood, Marion Griffin, Marion Lucy Mahony Grossman, Nancy Hall, Anne Hartigan, Grace Hesse, Eva Hoffman, Malvina Cornell Hokinson, Helen Elna Holzer, Jenny Hosmer, Harriet Goodhue Hunter, Clementine Huntington, Anna Vaughn Hyatt Itami, Michi Johnson, Adelaide Johnston, Henrietta Deering Kasebier, Gertrude Stanton Katzen, Lila Pell Kent, Corita Keyser, Louisa Klumpke, Anna Elizabeth Krasner, Lee Kruger, Barbara Lange, Dorothea Nutzhorn

Leibovitz, Annie Levitt, Helen Lewis, Edmonia Lin, Maya Lomas Garza, Carmen Lundeberg, Helen MacIver, Loren Margoulies, Berta O'Hare Marisol Martin, Agnes Martinez, Maria Mason, Alice Trumbull Mendieta, Ana Miss, Mary Mitchell, Joan Morgan, Julia Moses, Grandma Murray, Elizabeth Nampeyo Neel, Alice Nevelson, Louise Norman, Dorothy O'Keeffe, Georgia Palmer, Fanny Peale, Sarah Miriam Pena, Tonita Pepper, Beverly Pereira, Irene Rice Perry, Lilla Cabot Powers, Harriet Prophet, Elizabeth Ream, Vinnie Ringgold, Faith Rothenberg, Susan Saar, Betye Sage, Kay Savage, Augusta Schapiro, Miriam Sherman, Cindy Shore, Henrietta Simpson, Lorna Smith, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Jessie Willcox Smith, Kiki Spencer, Lilly Martin Stebbins, Emma Stephens, Alice Barber Stettheimer, Florine Stevens, May Tafoya, Margaret Tanning, Dorothea Tawney, Lenore Teichert, Minerva Thomas, Alma W. Treiman, Joyce Ulmann, Doris Velarde, Pablita Von Wiegand, Charmion Vonnoh, Bessie Potter Waring, Laura Wheeler Wayne, June Wheeler, Candace Whitney, Gertrude Wright, Patience Zorach, Marguerite Thompson Recommended Sources on American Women in the Visual Arts.