Women's Culture: American Philanthropy and Art, 1830-1930

by Kathleen D. McCarthy

Book Overview

Kathleen McCarthy here presents the first book-length treatment of the vital role middle- and upper-class women played in the development of American museums in the century after 1830. By promoting undervalued areas of artistic endeavor, from folk art to the avant-garde, such prominent individuals as Isabella Stewart Gardner, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, and Abby Aldrich Rockefeller were able to launch national feminist reform movements, forge extensive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226555844
• ISBN13: 9780226555843
• Release Date: February 1993
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"