The Obstacle Race
Subtitle: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Published: October 1980
Number of pages: 373
ISBN-13: 9780374515829
First sentence: "The single most striking fact about the women who made names for themselves as painters before the nineteenth century is that almost all of them were related to better-known male painters, while the proportion of male painters who were not related to other"