While the Académie Julian was known as an independent teaching studio for men little had been published on the role this institution played, from the 1870s onward, in professionalizing art training for women. A series of case studies, in this book, provide an accurate way to assess the training women received in Paris in the atelier of William Bouguereau or Jules Lefebvre. Women came from all over the world (as far away as the United States or Poland) to be trained at the Académie Julian. When they returned to their native soil many became art teachers; others continued their painting careers by producing life-like portraits of sitters, demonstrating that the Académie Julian training had been instrumental in molding their careers.

Overcoming all Obstacles: The Women of the Académie Julian, (Co-editor) Rutgers University Press and the Dahesh Museum, New York, 1999