Cynthia Fowler is a feminist art historian and professor of art at Emmanuel College, Boston. She received her PhD from the University of Delaware in 2002 and also holds fellowships from the Smithsonian Institute, the Winterthur Museum, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Previous work includes Hooked Rugs: Encounters in American Modern Art, Craft and Design and Locating American Art: Finding Meaning in Art Museums.

Cynthia Fowler has written a key text which examines the lives and significant works of women embroiderers who were practicing at the forefront of ‘modern embroidery' in the United States in the early twentieth century.

• 1. Introduction2. The Modern Embroidery Movement in Context3. Marguerite Zorach: The Roots of the Modern Embroidery Movement4. Georgiana Brown Harbeson and Her Collaborators: Establishing the Modern Embroidery Movement5. Collaboration6. Visualizing Manhattan7. Nature as Symbol8. Embroidered Portraits9. ConclusionReferencesIndex

Cynthia Fowler is a feminist art historian and professor of art at Emmanuel College, Boston. She received her PhD from the University of Delaware in 2002 and also holds fellowships from the Smithsonian Institute, the Winterthur Museum, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Previous work includes Hooked Rugs: Encounters in American Modern Art, Craft and Design and Locating American Art: Finding Meaning in Art Museums.

Cynthia Fowler has written a key text which examines the lives and significant works of women embroiderers who were practicing at the forefront of ‘modern embroidery' in the United States in the early twentieth century.

• 1. Introduction2. The Modern Embroidery Movement in Context3. Marguerite Zorach: The Roots of the Modern Embroidery Movement4. Georgiana Brown Harbeson and Her Collaborators: Establishing the Modern Embroidery Movement5. Collaboration6. Visualizing Manhattan7. Nature as Symbol8. Embroidered Portraits9. ConclusionReferencesIndex