A celebration of the many contributions of women designers to 20th-century American culture. Encompassing work in fields ranging from textiles and ceramics to furniture and fashion, it features the achievements of women of various ethnic and cultural groups, including both famous designers (Ray Eames, Florence Knoll and Donna Karan) and their less well-known sisters.
Table of Contents
Director’s Foreword
Susan Weber Soros
Preface
Pat Kirkham
Prologue: American Women in the Twentieth Century
Context Line
Compiled by Pat Kirkham and Sarah A. Lichtman
Social Change and Changing Experience
Eileen Boris
1. Women Deisgners in the USA, 1900-2000: Diversity and Difference
Pat Kirkham and Lynne Walker
2. Women Designers and the Arts and Crafts Movement
Wendy Kaplan
3. The Sacred Hoop: Native American Women Designers
Pamela Kladzyk
4. “Three Strikes Against Me”: African American Women Designers
Pat Kirkham and Shauna Stallworth
5. “Wellpaying Self-Support”: Women Textile Designers in the USA
Mary Schoeser and Whitney Blausen
6. Tradition and Transformation: Women Quilt Designers
Jacqueline M. Atkins
7. American Fashion
Valerie Steele
8. Women Jewelry Designers
Toni Greenbaum and Pat Kirkham
9. Women Metalsmiths
Jeannine Falino
10. Designing Hollywood: Women Costume and Production Designers
Deborah Nadoolman Landis and Pat Kirkham
11. In “A Man’s World”: Women Industrial Designers
Ella Howard and Eric Setliff
12. Women Furniture Makers: From Decorative Designers to Studio Makers
Edward S. Cooke Jr.
13. “A Woman’s Place…”?: Women Interior Designers
1900-1950
Pat Kirkham and Penny Sparke
1950-2000
Judith B. Gura
14. Women Landscape Designers
Leslie Rose Close
15. “Quietly Fine”/Quietly Subversive: Women Ceramic Designers
Cheryl Buckley
16. Colophon: Women Graphic Designers
Ellen Lupton
Checklist of the Exhibition
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index
Susan Weber Soros
Preface
Pat Kirkham
Prologue: American Women in the Twentieth Century
Context Line
Compiled by Pat Kirkham and Sarah A. Lichtman
Social Change and Changing Experience
Eileen Boris
1. Women Deisgners in the USA, 1900-2000: Diversity and Difference
Pat Kirkham and Lynne Walker
2. Women Designers and the Arts and Crafts Movement
Wendy Kaplan
3. The Sacred Hoop: Native American Women Designers
Pamela Kladzyk
4. “Three Strikes Against Me”: African American Women Designers
Pat Kirkham and Shauna Stallworth
5. “Wellpaying Self-Support”: Women Textile Designers in the USA
Mary Schoeser and Whitney Blausen
6. Tradition and Transformation: Women Quilt Designers
Jacqueline M. Atkins
7. American Fashion
Valerie Steele
8. Women Jewelry Designers
Toni Greenbaum and Pat Kirkham
9. Women Metalsmiths
Jeannine Falino
10. Designing Hollywood: Women Costume and Production Designers
Deborah Nadoolman Landis and Pat Kirkham
11. In “A Man’s World”: Women Industrial Designers
Ella Howard and Eric Setliff
12. Women Furniture Makers: From Decorative Designers to Studio Makers
Edward S. Cooke Jr.
13. “A Woman’s Place…”?: Women Interior Designers
1900-1950
Pat Kirkham and Penny Sparke
1950-2000
Judith B. Gura
14. Women Landscape Designers
Leslie Rose Close
15. “Quietly Fine”/Quietly Subversive: Women Ceramic Designers
Cheryl Buckley
16. Colophon: Women Graphic Designers
Ellen Lupton
Checklist of the Exhibition
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index
Contributors
Jacqueline M. Atkins
Adjunct associate professor, New York University
Whitney Blausen
Independent textile historian, writer, and researcher
Eileen Boris
Professor, Studies in Women and Gender, University of Virginia; Charlottesville
Cheryl Buckley
Reader in Design History, University of Northumbria, England
Leslie Rose Close
Landscape historian
Edward S. Cooke Jr.
Charles F. Montgomery Professor of American Decorative Arts, Yale University
Jeannine Falino
Carolyn and Peter Lynch Curator of Decorative Arts and Sculpture, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Toni Greenbaum
Independent art and design historian and curator
Judith Gura
Assistant professor, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn
Ella Howard
Ph.D. candidate, American and New England Studies, Boston University
Pat Kirkham
Professor, Bard Graduate Center, New York
Pamela Kladzyk
Adjunct professor, Parsons School of Design, New York
Deborah Nadoolman Landis
Film costume designer and dress historian
Adjunct associate professor, New York University
Whitney Blausen
Independent textile historian, writer, and researcher
Eileen Boris
Professor, Studies in Women and Gender, University of Virginia; Charlottesville
Cheryl Buckley
Reader in Design History, University of Northumbria, England
Leslie Rose Close
Landscape historian
Edward S. Cooke Jr.
Charles F. Montgomery Professor of American Decorative Arts, Yale University
Jeannine Falino
Carolyn and Peter Lynch Curator of Decorative Arts and Sculpture, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Toni Greenbaum
Independent art and design historian and curator
Judith Gura
Assistant professor, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn
Ella Howard
Ph.D. candidate, American and New England Studies, Boston University
Pat Kirkham
Professor, Bard Graduate Center, New York
Pamela Kladzyk
Adjunct professor, Parsons School of Design, New York
Deborah Nadoolman Landis
Film costume designer and dress historian
