Esther Pressoir: A Modern Woman's Painter

By: Scanlan, Suzanne M.

Coming of age in the 1920s, Stella, as she was known to her friends, cast off societal expectations of a working-class immigrant family in New England and moved through the studios, galleries, and nightclubs of New York. Following an unprecedented 18,000 km bicycle trip across Europe in 1927, where she kept a daily journal and made hundreds of sketches, Pressoir developed an expressionistic style that straddled figuration and abstraction. She made...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1848226004
• ISBN13: 9781848226005
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.5" x 9.8"