Central to their lives : Southern women artists in the Johnson Collection / edited by Lynne Blackman ; foreword by Sylvia Yount ; essays by Martha R. Severens, Deborah C. Pollack, Evie Terrono, Karen Towers Klacsmann, Erin R. Corrales-Diaz, and Daniel Belasco.

Cover; CENTRAL TO THEIR LIVES; Title; Copyright; Contents; FOREWORD; INTRODUCTION; EDITORIAL NOTE; "THE PEDESTAL HAS CRASHED": ISSUES FACING WOMEN ARTISTS IN THE SOUTH; SISTERHOODS OF SPIRIT: SOUTHERN WOMEN'S CLUBS AND EXPOSITIONS; SUFFRAGE, SOCIAL ACTIVISM, AND WOMEN ARTISTS OF THE SOUTH; "OF THE SOUTH, FOR THE SOUTH AND BY THE SOUTH": THE SOUTHERN STATES ART LEAGUE; "CONTRARY INSTINCTS": ART HISTORY'S GENDERED COLOR LINE; EYES WIDE OPEN: MODERNIST WOMEN ARTISTS IN THE SOUTH; THE WORKS OF ART; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; DIRECTORY OF SOUTHERN WOMEN ARTISTS; NOTES; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX