Table of Contents

Virginia Scharff, Introduction: Women Envision the West, 1890-1945 Susan Landauer, Searching for Selfhood: Women Artists of Northern California Patricia Trenton, "Islands on the Land": Women Traditionalists of Southern California Ilene Susan Fort, The Adventuresome, The Eccentrics, and The Dreamers: Women Modernists of Southern California Vicki Halper, Northwestern Exposure Sarah Moore, No Woman's Land: Arizona Adventurers Sandra D'Emilio and Sharyn R. Udall, Inner Voices, Outward Forms: Women Painters in New Mexico Susan Landauer with Becky Duval Reese, Lone Star Spirits Erika Doss, "I Must Paint": Women Artists of the Rocky Mountain Region Joni L. Kinsey, Cultivating the Grasslands: Women Painters in the Great Plains

About the Author

Patricia Trenton is a consultant/curator at the Los Angeles Athletic Club Art Collection. She is the coauthor of The Rocky Mountains: A Vision for Artists in the Nineteenth Century (1983), Native Americans: Five Centuries of Changing Images (1989), and California Light: 1900-1930 (1990).