This book is published on the occasion of the exhibition of works on paper by thirty-eight 20th-century British women artists in a display of over 50 watercolours and pastels, complemented by etchings and screenprints. These were executed in a variety of media and are made up of preliminary studies, cartoons for mural projects and finished works. The artists Vanessa Bell, Winifred Knights, Ithell Colquhoun, Annie French, Lucy Kemp-Welch, Therese Lessore, Hilda Carline and Paule Vezelay are all represented, as well as other accomplished but lesser-known female artists working in the first part of the 20th century. The exhibition includes some works from private collections as well as pictures from the Laing collection. 120 illustrations