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 nonprofit marketing systems, and "feminize" new occupations.
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Kathleen D. McCarthy is associate professor of history and Director of the Center for the Study of Philanthropy at the Graduate School and University Center, CUNY. She is the author of Noblesse Oblige: Charity and Cultural Philanthropy in Chicago, also published by the University of Chicago Press.
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multipurpose museums, decorative arts movement, nonprofit entrepreneurship, decorative art societies, separatist initiatives, women art students, professional parity, decorative artifacts, philanthropic strategies, female individualism, female artistry, male connoisseurs, women philanthropists, cultural philanthropy, antebellum women, million bequest, museum movement, great women artists, museum development, household decoration, art needlework, separatist strategies, female painters Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Gilded Age, Art Institute, Civil War, Candace Wheeler, Mary Cassatt, United States, Isabella Stewart Gardner, Luman Reed, Armory Show, Fenway Court, Société Anonyme, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, National Academy of Design, Pennsylvania Academy, Louisine Havemeyer, Edith Halpert, Katherine Dreier, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, Bertha Palmer, Cecilia Beaux, Greenwich Village, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Asher Durand New!
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Antebellum America was a nation of joiners. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
multipurpose museums, decorative arts movement, nonprofit entrepreneurship, decorative art societies, separatist initiatives, women art students, professional parity, decorative artifacts, philanthropic strategies, female individualism, female artistry, male connoisseurs, women philanthropists, cultural philanthropy, antebellum women, million bequest, museum movement, great women artists, museum development, household decoration, art needlework, separatist strategies, female painters Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Gilded Age, Art Institute, Civil War, Candace Wheeler, Mary Cassatt, United States, Isabella Stewart Gardner, Luman Reed, Armory Show, Fenway Court, Société Anonyme, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, National Academy of Design, Pennsylvania Academy, Louisine Havemeyer, Edith Halpert, Katherine Dreier, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Philadelphia Centennial Exposition, Bertha Palmer, Cecilia Beaux, Greenwich Village, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Asher Durand New!
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