While there are several wonderful options for books about women in art, we have picked from our library collection and from our staffs reading list.
Young Readers Nonfiction
- Women Artists A to Z by Melanie LaBarge
- We Are Artists: Women who Made their Mark on the World by Kari Herbert
Nonfiction
- Embroidering our Heritage: The Dinner Party Needlework by Judy Chicago
- Women and Art: Contested Territory by Judy Chicago and Edward Lucie-Smith
- 50 Women Artists You Should Know by Christiane Weidemann
- Broad Strokes: 15 Women Who Made Art and Made History (in That Order) by Bridget Quinn
- Confessions of the Guerrilla Girls by Guerrilla Girls
- The Guerrilla Girls’ Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art by Guerrilla Girls
- Georgia O’Keeffe: A Life by Roxana Robinson
- Skirting the Issue: Stories of Indiana’s Historical Women Artists by Judith Vale Newton
- Pioneer Modernists: Minnesota’s First Generation of Women Artists by Julie L’Enfant
- Women Artists: An Illustrated History by Nancy G. Heller
- Frida Kahlo: Painting Her Own Reality by Christina Burrus
- Color: A Natural History of the Palette by Victoria Finlay
- Tove Jansson: Work and Love by Tuula Karjalainen
- The Queens of Animation: The Untold Story of the Women Who Transformed the World of Disney and Made Cinematic History by Nathalia Holt
- It’s What I Do: A Photographers Life of Love and War by Lynsey Addario
Films/Documentaries
- Frida (2002)
- Eva Hesse (2016)
Feel free to let us know what you think of our selections, or add your own in the comment section below!
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