Art work : women artists and democracy in mid-nineteenth-century New York /

Between 1850 and 1880, thousands of women moved to New York City to study art and pursue careers as painters, designers, illustrators, and engravers. This book reconnects their accomplishments to the city's conspicuously democratic art institutions, its burgeoning illustrated press, and the pre...

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Main Author: Masten, April F. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008
Series:Arts and intellectual life in modern America.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central