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Angels and tomboys. Girlhood in nineteenth-century American art

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  • "Girlhood in nineteenth-century American art"
  • "Angels and tomboys"
  • "Girlhood in 19th-century American art"

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  • ""Explores the myriad ways artists portrayed young girls, from the sentimental, innocent stereotype to the freespirited individual. Works by John Singer Sargent, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Eakins, together with those by leading women artists, such as Cecilia Beaux and Mary Cassatt, reveal a new, provocative psychological element not found in early Victorian portraiture, while the mischievous tomboys in Lilly Martin Spencer's paintings and the pure angels in the works of Abbot Handerson Thayer underscore the complexity of girlhood--and of representing that evanescent phase. Essays ... consider the historical, social, and literary contexts of the artworks, drawing on sources as varied as etiquette books, poems, censuses, and the histories of medicine and economics. With more than 130 illustrations--including paintings, sculptures, prints, and photographs ..."--Publisher description."

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  • "Ausstellung"
  • "Exhibition catalogs"

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  • "Angels and tomboys : girlhood in nineteenth-century American art : [exhibition, Newark Museum, September 12, 2012-January 6, 2013 ; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, February 16-May 26, 2013 ; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, June 28-September 30, 2013]"
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