Karla Huebner’s Feminist Art History Bibliography:
American Women Sculptors

HESE SOURCES relate to the wave of sculptors born around 1870, most of whom have sunk into obscurity as a result of changing tastes. They had considerable press coverage in their day, much of which is preserved in the vertical files of the Metropolitan Museum library. For more about this enormous group of artists, or about American women sculptors in general, see Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein’s two huge books on American women artists.

Adams, Adeline. “Evelyn Beatrice Longman,” The American Magazine of Art 19, no. 5 (May 1928), 237–250.

Adams, Mildred. “Brenda Putnam, Sculptor,” The Woman Citizen n.s. 10, no. 8 (November, 1925), 14–15.

“American Woman Sculptor Honored in France,” New York Times Magazine 5/19/18. [Hoffman]

Aronson, Charles N. Sculptured Hyacinths. Vantage Press, New York, 1973.

“The Art of the Dance in a Frieze,” New York Times 2/28/1915.

Berman, Avis. Rebels on Eighth Street: Juliana Force and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Atheneum, New York, 1990.

Breuning, Margaret. “Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney’s Sculpture,” Magazine of Art (February 1943), 62–65.

Brookgreen Gardens. Sculpture by Brenda Putnam. Brookgreen Gardens, Brookgreen, SC, 1937.

________. Sculpture by Evelyn Beatrice Longman. Brookgreen Gardens, Brookgreen, SC, 1937.

________. Sculpture by Beatrice Fenton. Brookgreen Gardens, Brookgreen, SC, 1937.

Decoteau, Pamela Hibbs. “Malvina Hoffman and the ‘Races of Man,’” Woman’s Art Journal (Fall 1989–Winter 1990), 7–12.

Dickerson, James Spencer. “Evelyn B. Longman: A Western Girl Who Has Become a National Figure in Sculpture,” The World To-day 14 (May 1908), 526–530.

Espenscheid, Rosalie. “Harriet Frishmuth, American Sculptress, Finds ‘Wholesouled Spirit’ Among Fellow Craftsmen,” Brooklyn Eagle 11/1/25.

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. American Sculpture: The Collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, 1982.

Hill, May Brawley. The Woman Sculptor: Malvina Hoffman and Her Contemporaries. Berry Hill Galleries, New York, 1984.

Hills, Patricia. Turn-of-the-Century America. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1977.

Hoffman, Malvina. Heads and Tales. Bonanza Books, New York, 1936.

________. Malvina Hoffman. American Sculptors Series, 5. W.W. Norton & Co./National Sculpture Society, New York, 1948.

________. Yesterday is Tomorrow, A Personal History. Crown Publishers, New York, 1965.

Hudson River Museum. A Dancer in Relief: Works by Malvina Hoffman. Text by Janis C. Conner. 1984.

Hyland, Douglas. “Adelheid Lange Roosevelt: American Cubist Sculptor,” Archives of American Art Journal 21, no. 4 (1981), 10–17.

Kohlman, Rena Tucker. “America’s Women Sculptors,” International Studio 76 (December 1922), 225–235.

Krakel, Dean. End of the Trail: The Odyssey of a Statue. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 1973.

“Malvina Hoffman dead at age of 81,” New York Times 7/11/1966.

McCarthy, Kathleen D. Women’s Culture: American Philanthropy and Art, 1830–1930. University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 1991.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. American Figure Sculpture in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Boston, 1986.

National Sculpture Society. Contemporary American Sculpture. New York, 1929.

________. Exhibition of American Sculpture. New York, 1923.

Nochlin, Linda. “Malvina Hoffman: A Life in Sculpture,” Arts Magazine 59, no. 3 (November 1984), 106–110.

O’Donnell, William Francis. “Meta Vaux Warrick, Sculptor of Horrors,” World To-day (November, 1907), 1139–1145.

“Pavlowa in Sculpture,” Harper’s Bazar 11/1914.

Pène du Bois, Guy. “Mrs. Whitney’s Journey in Art,” International Studio (January, 1923), 351–354.

Proske, Beatrice Gilman. Brookgreen Gardens Catalogue of Sculpture. Brookgreen Gardens, Brookgreen, SC, 1936.

________. Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture. Brookgreen Gardens, Brookgreen, SC, 1943.

________. “American Women Sculptors: Part I,” National Sculpture Review 24, nos. 2–3 (Summer–Fall 1975), 8–15, 28; Part II, 24, no. 4 (Winter 1975–76), 8–17, 28.

Putnam, Brenda. The Sculptor’s Way: A Guide to Modelling and Sculpture. Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., New York & Toronto, 1939.

“Racial Types in Sculpture by Malvinia [sic] Hoffman,” London Studio (June 1934), 251–254.

Rainey, Ada. “American Women in Sculpture,” The Century Magazine 93, no. 3 (January 1917), 434–435.

Rawson, Jonathan A., Jr. “Evelyn Beatrice Longman: Feminine Sculptor,” International Studio 45 (February 1912), xcix–ciii.

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Augusta Savage and the Art Schools of Harlem. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the New York Public Library, New York, 1988.

Solender, Katherine. The American Way in Sculpture 1890–1930. Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, Cleveland, 1986.

Taft, Lorado. History of American Sculpture. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1924.

Teall, Gardner. “Women Sculptors of America,” Good Housekeeping Magazine 53 (August 1911), 175–187.

“Titanic Memorial Design by Mrs. Whitney Severely Criticised,” New York American 1/26/1914.

Tutwiler, Julia R. “Women Who Achieve: Anna Coleman Ladd,” Harper’s Bazar (March 1915), 39.

“Two Fountains by Anna Coleman Ladd,” Art and Progress 3, no. 12 (October 1912), 740–2.

Van Proyen, Mark. “Trail Blazers in Harlem,” Artweek 19, no. 5 (February 6, 1988), 1.

“Virginia Reviews Career of Malvina Hoffman,” Art Digest 11, no. 12 (March 15, 1937), 16.

Walton, William. “Some Contemporary Young Women Sculptors,” Scribner’s 47 (May 1910), 637–640.

“We Nominate Harriet Frishmuth,” Dancers Club News, New York (April 1932).

“Work of American Sculptress Causes Furor in Rome’s Art Circles,” The Sun (New York) 6/26/14.

“Works by Anna Coleman Ladd,” American Magazine of Art 9, no. 110 (August 1918), 431.

F.P.M. “Laura Gardin Fraser, Artist, Sculptor,” The Numismatist 33 (July 1920), 315.

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