On Books – Restless Enterprise: The Art and Life of Eliza Pratt Greatorex by Katherine Manthorne Bruce Weber
Restless Enterprise: The Art and Life of Eliza Pratt Greatorex, by Katherine
Manthorne (Oakland: University
of California Press, 2020). 352 pp.,
color and b/w illus.
Art historian Katherine E. Manthorne has written a welcome addition to recent studies devoted to American women artists and cultural figures of the past two centuries. The flurry of such publications is especially noteworthy as we celebrate the hundredth anniversary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, earning women the right to vote after a long struggle.