Society of Women Artists
San Francisco Museum of Art
Women artists of the past have formed a small but very special category in the art of their various eras. The maternal paintings of Cassatt, the delicate and poetic paintings of Laurencin are a distinguished part of our heritage. With this in mind it is easy to generalize why it might be wise to show them separately. The possible small subtleties and feminine gestures might not compete well with the bluff and brusque pictures of their male counterparts in the arts. But there is little evidence of anything especially womanly in the paintings of this group. Without the title, one would not have