Esther Pressoir a trained botanical illustrator and

a trained botanical illustrator and scholar

marine painter extraordinaire

remaining aloof from passing trends

Suggesting more than environmental home improvements

Overcoming historical challenges within architectural practice

Esther Pressoir a trained botanical illustrator andEsther Pressoir: A Modern Womans Painter situates Esther Estelle Pressoirs body of work within the effervescent art scene of the early 20th century, both in America and abroad. The first book to present the wide ranging oeuvre of this American modernist, it covers the span of Pressoirs long life (1902 86) with a particular focus on the interwar decades (1920 40). Coming of age in the 1920s, Stella, as she was known to her friends, cast off societal