Original sentence: Elizabeth McCausland (1899–1965) was an American art critic, historian and writer.Much of her interest in art scholarship was rooted in aspirations towards democracy and social justice.Starting from the mid-1930s, she worked as an art critic and freelance writer, contributing to Parnassas, The New Republic, and Magazine of Art
Edited sentence: AElizabeth McCausland (1899–1965) was an American art critic, historian and writer.After the closing of the Springfield Republican she contributing to Parnassas, The New Republic, and Magazine of Art.As an ardent feminist she wrote early in depth articles on Martha Graham and Gertriude Stein when their work  appeared in Springfield Massachusetts where she was based as the art critic for the Springfield Republican provided her with an entire page of the newspaper to develop her ideas until its closing in 1946,, She could write equally forcefully and originally on Georgia OKeeffe and Kathe Kollwitz.As an art critic she pioneered the articulation of a socially engaged art, particularly inspired by the Americn Artists Congress of 1936.Elizabeth McCausland, ""Art Politics and Sexuality, Women Artists and Modernism, Manchester University Press, 1998 as well as Chapter 5 in her book, Art and Politics in the 1930s, Modernism, Marxism, Americanism, Midmarch 1999.Her art scholarship was rooted in her passion for democracy and social justice.Her powerful use of evocative language created a new model for passionate personal writing on art that also incorporated astute analysis and starting in the mid 1930s, a Marxist perspective on capitalism.See the article by Susan Noyes Platt.She was also a close friend of Georgia OKeeffe