Romaine Brooks
Annotated Bibliography

Breeskin, Adelynn Dohme. Romaine Brooks. Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1986. 2nd ed.
This book was a catalogue that traveled with an early exhibition by the Smithsonian Institution.


Chadwick, Whitney. Amazons in the Drawing Room: The Art of Romaine Brooks. London, England. Chameleon, 2000.
This comprehensive and thorough reference was the catalogue for the exhibition at the National Museum of Women in the Arts and the Berkeley Art Museum. It includes a brief biography by Chadwick and analysis by Joe Lucchesi.


Chadwick, Whitney. Women, Art, and Society. London. Thames and Hudson, 1990 and 1996.
The book includes numerous pages referencing Brooks and her work and its importance to art in the 20th century.


Chicago, Judy and Lucie-Smith, Edward. Women and Art: Contested Territory. New York, Watson-Guptill Publishing, 1999.
Women and Art is a survey of Women’s Art organized in categories. Brooks falls under the chapters "Casting Couch and Brothel" and the chapter "Exploring Identities." The book talks about how Brooks explored studies of women reclining on the couch. In the other chapter Chicago explains how artist use drag in their art and what that conveys.


Secrest, Meryle. Between Me and Life.
This book is a biography written shortly after her death.


Weiss, Andrea. Paris Was a Woman: Portraits from the Left Bank. San Francisco, Harpers, 1995.
This book is a great reference on Brooks, depicting the context in which she was making art.