Glorious Eccentrics
Modernist Women Painting and Writing

The seven creators - Judith Gautier, Suzanne Valadon, Dorothy Bussy, Dora Carrington, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Emily Carr, and Claude Cahun led extraordinary lives, personal and professional. This book illustrates their portraits, their writings, their photographs, their paintings, and gives a picture of each.

Judith Gautier, Suzanne Valadon, Dorothy Bussy, Dora Carrington, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Emily Carr, and Claude Cahun represent far-out involvements, from the Orient to the First Nation tribes of Canada, from Worpswede to Bloomsbury, and from Paris to the island of Jersey. They make up a remarkable and new picture of modernism, from a highly personal point of view. These seven creators - British, Canadian, French, and German - led extraordinary lives, personal and professional. The book is heavily illustrated with their portraits, their writings, their photographs, and their paintings, to give an in-depth picture of each.

This is Personal: My Grandmother a Painter - Judith Gautier: Orientalist Muse - Suzanne Valadon: Beyond Model and Mummie - Dorothy Bussy: Translating a Passion - Emily Carr: Setting Out - Paula Modersohn-Becker: Requiem for a Friend - Dora
Carrington: Once Upon a Time.... - Claude Cahun: Island of Courage - Conclusion: Refusing and Resisting