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ESTHER PRESSOIR
A Modern Woman’s Painter
by Suzanne M. Scanlan
Lund Humphries. 154 pages, $44.99

SUZANNE M. SCANLAN, a professor at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), was searching for a topic she could develop into a book. While digging into the RISD archives, she made an exciting find: a heretofore unrecognized RISD graduate who had earned her living from her art, exhibited her work throughout her life, and was, Scanlan discovered, a lesbian. The result is her illustrated biography Esther Pressoir: A Modern Woman’s Painter.