Slide Images for October 10

Harriet Hosmer

Zenobia in Chains

1859

 Harriet Hosmer

Beatrice Cenci

1856

Edmonia Lewis

Forever Free 

1867

 Edmonia Lewis

The Death of Cleopatra

1876

 Anne Whitney

Roma

1869

 Jennie Brownscombe

The New School-Mistress

1876

 Susan MacDowell Eakins

Portrait of Thomas Eakins

1889

Alice Barber Stephens

The Female Life Class

1879

Terms of the Day for October 10

• "The White Marmorean Flock” – a group of American women sculptors who studied and worked together as a collective in Rome in the mid- to late-19th century.  The title of the group was a pejorative name developed by author Henry James which the women decided to adopt.
• The First-Wave Feminism – a period of feminist activity during the 19th and early twentieth century, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It focused on ending officially mandated inequalities and gaining women's suffrage.
• The Centennial International Exhibition – the first official World's Fair in the United States, held to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.  It is notable for a “Women’s Pavilion,” which displayed a wide range of work by women artists and artisans.

Slide Images for October 7

 Henrietta Johnston

Mary DuBose (Mrs. Samuel Wragg)

1708

 Henrietta Johnston

Frances Moore Bayard

1725

 Sarah Goodridge

Chief Justice Theophilus Parsons

c. 1820

 Sarah Goodridge

Beulah Appleton

c. 1840

 Sarah Goodridge

Beauty Revealed

1828

 Needlework Case with 

Abolitionist Slogan

c. 1830-50

 “Underground Railroad”

Quilt Pattern

Late 1800s

Women Rig(hts) Quilt

1850s

Harriet Powers

Bible Quilt

1886

 Harriet Powers

Pictoral Quilt

1895-98

Lilly Martin Spenser

Domestic Happiness

1849

 Harriet Hosmer

Young Husband: First Marketing

1854

Harriet Hosmer

We Both Must Fade

1869

Terms of the Day for October 7

• Utopia – a community or society possessing highly desirable or perfect qualities. The word was coined in Greek by Sir Thomas More’s book Utopia, describing a fictional island with a perfect society. The term has been used to describe both intentional communities that attempt to create an ideal society, and fictional societies portrayed in literature..
• Abolitionism – a movement to end slavery, whether formal or informal.   In the nineteenth century,  this movement was highly organized and contributed to many societal changes in America, the Civil War, and the eventual emancipation of slave in the United States.