Susie M. Barstow: Redefining the Hudson River School

Guest post by Nancy Siegel, Towson University Figure 1. Susie Barstow Skelding, Photograph of Susie M. Barstow in her Brooklyn Studio, 1891, 5 x 7 in. Private Collection.  An artist of the Hudson River School, Susanna (Susie) Moore Barstow (1836–1923) was raised...

Portraying May Alcott Nieriker

Guest post by Julia Dabbs, University of Minnesota, Morris “Concord people will be amazed by it.” So wrote artist and author May Alcott Nieriker (1840–1879), youngest sister of famed author Louisa May Alcott, in an 1877 letter to her family. She was...

Happy Birthday, Fidelia Bridges!

Guest post by Katherine Manthorne, The Graduate Center, CUNY On this day—May 19th—in 1834 the best-selling female artist and illustrator in post-Civil War United States was born. A native of Salem, Massachusetts, Fidelia Bridges (1834–1923) forged an artistic career...