Suzanne M. Scanlan is Assistant Professor of Theory and History of Art and Design at the Rhode Island School of Design. Her research centers on women as artists, patrons and collectors from the Renaissance through the modern period. Previous works include Divine and Demonic Imagery at Tor de’Specchi, 1400-1500: Religious Women and Art in 15th -Century Rome (2018).
‘In this vividly written monograph accessible to the general reader, Suzanne M. Scanlan reconstitutes the life and work of a largely forgotten American woman artist of the twentieth century, offering a tantalizingly detailed view into her development as well as the shadowed corners of female and queer experience in the first half of the twentieth century. {…} We see Pressoir's evolution from precocious child to experimenting student and ultimately to artistic maturity, confident in her hand and eye.’ – Taylor M Polites, Provincetown Arts