The University of Massachusetts Art History Department presents an exhibition entitled, Women Artists: An Untold Story (1890 – 1940). This exhibit is part of the Senior Art History Capstone class at UMass Dartmouth and will feature paintings, illustrations, book cover designs and photographs created by professional late nineteenth and early twentieth -century women artists from Philadelphia to Maine. The exhibition will open April 15 and close on May 2, 2015 The exhibition is held at the CVPA Campus Gallery, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 285 Old Westport Road, North Dartmouth, MA 02747. (Parking Lot 9 directly behind the CVPA building.). All are invited to attend the open reception and gallery talk on Thursday, Apr 16, 4 – 6 PM. For more information, please visit the University Galleries Facebook page, www.facebook.com/UmassDartmouthGalleries.

The exhibition explores the careers and lives of New Modern Woman Artist of the early twentieth-century and include works by Jessie Willcox Smith, Sarah Wyman Whitman, Eliza Draper Gardiner, Anna Richards Brewster, Blanche Ames, Theodosia Chase, Elizabeth Shippen Green, Emma Swan, Angela O’Leary, Mabel May Woodward, Grace Albee, Helen Watson Phelps, Alice Barbara Stephens, Ellen Dale Hale, and Lena Newscastle. These women were accomplished artists and leaders within the American art world. They embraced the modernist principles by the established of art organization throughout North East, attended and taught at prestigious education institutions, study at European and American salons with renown Modernists artists such as William Morris Hunt, John LaFarge and Arthur Dow and led profitable successful business careers.

The exhibition is a project of the Art History Senior Seminar class, composed of fourteen art history upperclassmen. Through this course students apply their academic and professional knowledge to a real world endeavor. Students expand their skill sets within the fields of art history, art, design and museum studies, through exhibition research, writing, interpretation, exhibition and graphic design, collection care, and visitor relations. Students learn to work collaboratively within a team setting. Students wrote and edited the catalog, developed the exhibition design, installed the exhibition and developed public programming.

We would like to extend our gratitude to those individuals who generously loaned works to the Women Artists: An Untold Story (1890-1940) exhibition, including, private collectors, Providence Art Club, Bert Gallery, Providence Athenaeum, Boston Public Library, Smith College, UMass Amherst, New Bedford Public Library and UMass Dartmouth, Claire T. Carney University Library.