This inspiring book rewrites the history we thought we knew about women artists in 19th-century New York. Rediscovering a life once described in the national press as among the most important women in American history, the author also brings other lesser-known women into the canon. Unlike privileged woman like Mary Cassatt, Greatorex was born in Ireland, the daughter of a Methodist circuit-preacher, who through personal industry and restless entrepreneurship managed as a widow to raise four children, while building a stellar career as the foremost American woman-artist of her age. In researching this book, Manthorne retraced Eliza’s journey from Ireland to New York, to Munich, Oberammergau, Colorado and France.
“A work of exceptional scholarship and dynamic storytelling, Restless Enterprise offers the first, comprehensive biography and critical assessment of the long-overlooked American artist Eliza Pratt Greatorex. Decades of original research have come to exquisite fruition in this captivating account of Irish roots, nineteenth-century art, women’s rights, and westward expansion. Dr. Manthorne has illuminated a new star in American cultural history.”
–Adrienne Baxter Bell, Ph.D., author of George Inness and the Visionary Landscape and George Inness: Writings and Reflections on Art and Philosophy
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