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Jun. 30 | 2012 Bode-Pearson Prize
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Swinth, Kirsten N. "Painting Professionals: Women Artists and the Development of a Professional Ideal in American Art, 1870-1920," American Studies Program, Yale University, May 1995.
This dissertation examines the women painters who surged into American art after 1865 and ultimately restructured its institutions and rhetoric along gendered lines. I argue that a reaction to women’s gains emerged in the 1890s as men sought to forestall women’s advances and restrict “feminine” influence by reinstating a “virile” masculine individuality in art. Tracing these developments in art training, the art market, and art criticism, this dissertation draws on records of art schools and societies, exhibition catalogues, critical commentary, and artists’ papers. The dissertation also develops comparisons to women in other professions and argues for painting’s importance to middle-class women’s professional opportunities.
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