“A talented and decorative group” : a re-examination of London’s women artists, c. 1900-1914

• Main Author: Yu, Mengting
• Other Authors: Michael John Kirk Walsh
• Format: Thesis-Doctor of Philosophy
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2018
• Subjects: DRNTU::Visual arts and music
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/73862
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Alicia Foster’s article “Gwen John’s Self-Portrait: Art, Identity and Women Students at the Slade School,” published in 2000, used the expression “a talented and decorative group” to describe common attitudes towards women artists in late nineteenth and early twentieth century London. The pejorative...