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Mickalene Thomas
The Gilded Age:
Bikes, Bloomers and New
Women
New York's Latest Fad: The Michaux Cycle Club (Harper's
Weekly, 19 Jan. 1895)
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Nocturne in Black and
Gold, the Falling Rocket
growth of cities
crisis of belief
anti-urban and anti-modern
James McNeill Whistler
1875
oil on panel
social darwinism (Herbert Spencer)
reform darwinism
pragmatism (Dewey's instrumentalism)
60.2 x 46.7 cm
"tonalism"
Scribner's for June
Charles Dana Gibson,
June 1896
The bloomer costume
Nathaniel Currier, 1851.
Lithograph, 11 5/8 x 8 1/4".
Unidentified woman in bloomers, standing
with a bicycle. Brown Bros. (New York, N.
Y.), 1894, gelatin silver print, 5x7.125 in.
The American Girl:
the beautiful charmer
Amelia Bloomer in the
Bloomer Dress
1850's
The Wyndham
Sisters: Lady
Elcho, Mrs.
Adeane, and Mrs.
Tennant
the aspiring woman
John Singer
Sargent,
1899
the beauty
Oil on canvas
115 x 84 1/8 in.
(292.1 x 213.7 cm)
(detail)
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Mrs. Fiske Warren
(Gretchen Osgood) and
Her Daughter Rachel
Portrait of Mrs. Daniel
Sargent Curtis
John Singer Sargent,
American, 1856-1925
John Singer Sargent
1903
1882
Oil on canvas
Oil on canvas
152.4 x 102.55 cm (60 x
40 3/8 in.)
A Rose
71.1 x 53.3 cm
Winslow Homer: The bridle path, White Mountains
1868, 24 x 38 inches.
Thomas P. Anshutz,
1907
Oil on canvas
58 x 43 7/8 in. (147.3
x 111.4 cm)
William Merrit
Chase:
Portrait of Miss
Dora Wheeler
Childe Hassam
Room of Flowers
1883
1894
159 x 165.5 cm.
oil on canvas
34x34"
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Poster for Scribner's
Monthly Magazine
Allan Gilbert,
May 1898
becoming the new woman
the Gibson girl
The reason dinner was late
1912?
household
decoration and the
steel-engraved lady
the suffragist
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Mr. and Mrs. I. N. Phelps
Stokes
John Singer Sargent,
1897
Oil on canvas
"...the limits of her sphere ... are
prescribed only by the measure
of her ability." Susan B. Anthony
(1855)
84 1/4 x 39 3/4 in. (214 x 101
cm)
Gibson: The New Hat, 1905
is there a new woman of color?
stereotypes:
Jezebels
Mammies
Matriarchs
Richard Norris Brooke: Pastoral Visit
1881, oil on canvas, 47 3/46x65 3/4"
The Negro Revue: poster for Josephine
Baker
Paul Colin, 1925, oil on plywood, 100 x 76
cm
Jazz Stories: Mama Can Sing, Papa Can
Blow #2: Come On and Dance with Me
Faith Ringgold, 2004
acrylic on canvas with pierced border
80 1/2" x 67
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Aunt Jemima: then and now (1893 and 1972)
two by Ringgold
Sargent Johnson: Forever
Free, 1933, lacquered cloth
on wood, 36 x 11.5 x 9.5
Peggie Hartwell: Quilt Made
in Honor of Harriet Powers,
1995
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