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Todd, Ellen Wiley. "Gender, Occupation and Class in Paintings by the Fourteenth Street School, 1935-1940," Stanford University, January 1987.
This dissertation examines images of shopping and of working women from New York’s Union Square/Fourteenth Street neighborhood as depicted in the 1920s and 1930s by four painters: Kenneth Hayes Miller, Reginald Marsh, Raphael Soyer, and Isabel Bishop. In separate chapters on four iconographical types (Miller’s Matronly Shopper, Marsh’s Voluptuous Shopper, Soyer’s Weary Shop Girls, and Bishop’s Deferential Office Worker) the study explores the different ways middle-class ideologies of gender, occupation and class are embodied in the style and subjects chosen by these urban painters. While all four artists depict the New Women in modern roles, they cloak their models in old master prototypes and their images make only superficial accommodations to feminism. Thus, in spite of their up-to-date appearance, these paintings continue to project longstanding ideals of womanhood.
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