by wpengine | May 30, 2023 | News/Blog
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...
by wpengine | May 24, 2022 | News/Blog
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...
by wpengine | May 19, 2021 | News/Blog
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...
by wpengine | Nov 17, 2020 | News/Blog
Guest post by Isabel Gilmour, Bachelor of Arts Candidate in Art History, Columbia University The unabashed and open expression of one’s sexual desire is still taboo in American society. But with her male landscapes that communicate her erotic desire for the male...
