Category: BOOK PROJECT: Women and the Visual Arts in 19th century Hartford, CT

My upcoming book will juxtapose works of fine art and utilitarian objects or decorative art as a way to “meet” women of privilege like Elizabeth Colt (1826 – 1905), an important patron of the arts, and the more “ordinary” middle-class women whose creative expressions were often limited to the feminine arts such as needlepoint, quilting, and ceramics.
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Please check out ongoing podcast episodes and blog posts for insights and excerpts of the manuscript.

Daughters in 18th and 19th-centuries households in New England participated in the “textile production of…