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Author Connor, Holly Pyne, 1952-

Title Angels & tomboys : girlhood in 19th-century American art / Holly Pyne Connor ; with contributions by Sarah Burns, Barbara Dayer Gallati, Lauren Lessing.

Imprint Newark, N.J. : Newark Museum ; San Francisco : Pomegranate Communications, ©2012.

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 Axe Special Collections Whitehead  704.9425 C762a 2012    ---  Lib Use Only
Description 183 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
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Note Catalog of an exhibition held Sept. 12, 2012-Jan. 7, 2013 at the Newark Museum; Feb. 16-May 26, 2013 at the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art; and June 28-Sept. 30, 2013 at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents The flowering of girlhood narratives, 1850-1870 / Holly Pyne Connor -- Angel children: defining nineteenth-century girlhood / Holly Pyne Connor -- Family matters: artists and their model girls / Barbara Dayer Gallati -- Making mischief: tomboys acting up and out of bounds / Sarah Burns -- Roses in bloom: American images of adolescent girlhood / Lauren Lessing.
Summary "Explores the myriad ways artists portrayed young girls, from the sentimental, innocent stereotype to the freespirited individual. Works by John Singer Sargent, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Eakins, together with those by leading women artists, such as Cecilia Beaux and Mary Cassatt, reveal a new, provocative psychological element not found in early Victorian portraiture, while the mischievous tomboys in Lilly Martin Spencer's paintings and the pure angels in the works of Abbot Handerson Thayer underscore the complexity of girlhood--and of representing that evanescent phase. Essays ... consider the historical, social, and literary contexts of the artworks, drawing on sources as varied as etiquette books, poems, censuses, and the histories of medicine and economics. With more than 130 illustrations--including paintings, sculptures, prints, and photographs ..."--Publisher description.
Subject Children in art -- Exhibitions.
Girls in art -- Exhibitions.
Art, American -- 19th century -- Exhibitions.
Art, American. (OCoLC)fst00815895
Children in art. (OCoLC)fst00855249
Girls in art. (OCoLC)fst00942913
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Exhibition catalogs. (OCoLC)fst01424028
Exhibition catalogs.
Added Author Newark Museum.
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art.
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
Added Title Angels and tomboys
ISBN 9780764963292 (hardcover)
0764963295 (hardcover)

 
    
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