Bloemink’s thorough, engaging book is the first comprehensive biography and full reading of Stettheimer’s paintings, and gives the artist the attention she has long deserved.

One particular gift of Bloemink’s biography is that it presents the vers-libre poetry that Stettheimer wrote alongside her paintings, and shows that her verse, though produced without the immense technical care that she poured into her visual art, is in its way just as remarkable.

Bloemink brings her account to life using a wealth of archival material from Stettheimer’s world.

... a new biography, deeply researched and beautifully illustrated, with much to recommend it.

Despite its obvious scholarly heft, [Bloemink's] writing is suffused with the joie de vivre often attributed to her subject matter.

Truer words may never have been written about Stettheimer, who, despite being an integral part of the New York art scene during the first half of the 20th century, doesn’t rank anymore among that era’s most famous artists.

Bloemink...raises some interesting questions about how artistic reputations are built and maintained, about the development of American art in the 20th-century, about social class, gender roles, and the influence of gender on aesthetics.