Fanny Palmer

Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein (1922-2013) was an artist, scholar, and art educator. She is the author of American Women Artists: From Early Indian Times to the Present and American Women Sculptors: A History of Women Working in Three Dimensions. Diann Benti is a supervising librarian at the Huntington Library in San Marino, California. She previously worked at the American Antiquarian Society and the Harvard University Archives.

A wonderful testament to the life's work of two clearly remarkable women, Frances Flora Bond Palmer, and her erstwhile biographer, Charlotte Streifer Rubinstein. . . . A fine resource not only for Currier & Ives enthusiasts who wish to learn more about one of the firm's most significant artists, but also for scholars who wish to draw connections between the nineteenth-century popular press and other cultural themes from this period in America's history.-- "Kate Meyer, Imprint: Journal of the American Historical Print Collectors Society" Charlotte Rubinstein's extensively researched and richly illustrated biography provides compelling historical and cultural context for Currier & Ives's most important lithographer--Frances Flora Bond Palmer. . . . This book should be on the shelf of every historian, enthusiast, and collector of 19th-century prints.-- "Nancy Siegel, professor of art history, Towson University" Positions Frances ("Fanny") Bond Palmer as a nineteenth-century Norman Rockwell and advocates more broadly for the recognition of graphic arts and women artists....The quantity and quality of the illustrations are unprecedented in prior scholarship on Palmer....Rich with works both familiar and new that highlight the rare contributions of a British immigrant in shaping American visual culture.-- "Meredith L. Hale, The Art Libraries Society of North America" Rubinstein's volume fills a major scholarly gap and reclaims Fanny Palmer for the canon of American art history.-- "Woman's Art Journal" Rubinstein's work richly documents the life and work of an artist of significance in the history of American graphic arts. That significance is two-fold. First, Palmer was for many years a leading artist--arguably the leading artist--among the several who worked for the firm of Currier & Ives. . . . Second, Palmer was a great rarity in nineteenth-century America: a successful and prolific woman artist.-- "David Tatham, author of Winslow Homer in the Adirondacks" The author set out to place Palmer's work in its historical and art historical contexts and has accomplished her aim.-- "Georgia Barnhill, curator emerita, American Antiquarian Society"