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The Club: Where American Women Artists Found Refuge in Belle Époque Paris

The Club: Where American Women Artists Found Refuge in Belle Époque Paris

Dasal, Jennifer

Hardcover

ArtistsBiographies GeneralFrench History

Publisher Price: $29.99

PREORDER - Expected ship date July 15, 2025

ISBN10: 163973130X
ISBN13: 9781639731305
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: Jul 15 2025
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.12 Depth: 9.25
Language: English

Through masterful research and sparkling prose, The Club feels like an exclusive invitation to a Parisian enclave during an era of artistic and social transformation. -Michael Finkel, #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Art Thief

A deliciously entertaining, never-before-told history of a residence for American women artists in Paris from 1893 to 1914.

In Belle Époque Paris, the Eiffel Tower was newly built, France was experiencing remarkable political stability, and American women were painting the town and gathering at a female-only Residence known as The American Girls' Club in Paris. Opened in 1893, The Club was the center of expatriate living and of dedication to a calling in the fine arts, and singularly harbored a generation of independent, talented, and driven American women.

Now in The Club, curator, art historian, and podcast host Jennifer Dasal presents the never-before-told story of the Club, the philanthropists who created it, and the artists it housed. These women forged connections in the arts and letters with luminaries like Auguste Rodin and Gertrude Stein or became activists through their relationships with the likes of Emmeline Pankhurst. But just as importantly, these women's lives revealed the power of the Club itself, and the way that having a safe home for single women of ambition allowed them to grow as teachers, artists, suffragists, and people.

For readers interested in women's lives as captured in books like The Barbizon, art history buffs who loved Ninth Street Women, and armchair travelers longing to visit Belle Époque Paris, The Club is a captivating, colorful new history.

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