Cincinnati: By the author, 1932. First edition - Sub-titled "An artiste living in Paris", this is a brief picture of Nourse, a painter, born in Ohio, who lived most of her life in Paris. She was the first American woman to be voted into the Socit Nationale des Beaux-Arts. Includes a section with quotations from her letters during World War I when - unlike many Americans - she chose to remain in Paris "where she worked to assist the war's refugees and solicited donations from her friends in the United States and Canada for the benefit of people whose lives were disrupted by the war." (wiki) Frontispiece self-portrait. 24 pp.