Running away to paris: expatriate women artists of the 1900 generation, from Scotland and points south

Author: Reynolds, SIÂN¹

Source: Women's History Review, Volume 9, Number 2, Number 2/June 2000 , pp. 327-344(18)

Publisher: Routledge, part of the Taylor & Francis Group

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Abstract:

This article concerns women who crossed a frontier both literally, by travelling to Paris - the art centre of the world in about 1900 - and symbolically, by training to be artists in ways which were not open to earlier generations. Paris provided a cosmopolitan environment and the article includes references to women of several nationalities, but gives particular prominence to Scottish women artists as a doubly marginalised group. By considering both their relation to academic training and to the avant-garde, it seeks to explain the comparative obscurity of these first-generation artists and suggests that they often became professionals, but without making the breakthrough to fame.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1080/09612020000200249

Affiliations: 1: University of Stirling, United Kingdom

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