This book teaches a young audience about the works and lives of thirteen women a
rtists through informative texts, puzzles, coloring exercises, and fun quizzes.
In colourful spreads that feature important works as well as portraits of the ar
tists themselves, children will learn how Sofonisba Anguissola, the Renaissance
painter and pupil of Michelangelo, mastered portraiture in the Spanish Court; ho
w the exquisitely wrought illustrations of Maria Sybilla Merian advanced the stu
dy of nature in the seventeenth century; and how Mary Cassatt's paintings depict
ed the lives of women in the nineteenth century. Modern and contemporary artists
such as Georgia O'Keeffe, Frida Kahlo, Louise Bourgeois, and Cindy Sherman roun
d out this introduction to women artists for children.
