Title Art work : women artists and democracy in mid-nineteenth-century New York / April F. Masten

Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2008] ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (328 pages) : illustrations Series The arts and intellectual life in modern America Arts and intellectual life in modern America. Contents Introduction : "American Louvre" -- Democratic proclivities -- "The unity of art" -- "Art fever" -- "Harrahed for the Union" -- "Laborers in the field of the beautiful" -- "An easier and surer path" -- "A combination of adverse circumstances." Summary 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 prevailing aesthetic ideal known as the Unity of Art Analysis American History American Studies Gender Studies Women's Studies Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-305) and index Notes In English Print version record Subject Women artists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Social conditions Women artists -- New York (State) -- New York -- Economic conditions Art and society -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century HISTORY -- United States -- 19th Century. Art and society Women artists -- Economic conditions Women artists -- Social conditions New York (State) -- New York Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780812291742 0812291743

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