Esther Pressoir: A Modern Woman's PainterEsther Pressoir: A Modern Woman's Painter situates Esther Estelle Pressoir's body of work within the effervescent art scene of the early 20th century, both in America and abroad. The first book to present the wide ranging oeuvre of this American modernist, it covers the span of Pressoir's long life (1902 86) with a particular focus on the interwar decades (1920 40). Coming of age in the 1920s, Stella, as she was known to her friends, cast off societal