Cornell University

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, 114 Central Ave, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA

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Following the 2020 centennial of the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, this exhibition looks at the creative history of women expressing themselves in traditional and nontraditional media—from quilts to samplers, painting to pottery, books to prints—since the early nineteenth century. Though not a full-fledged survey, it touches on some of the artistic achievements made during the course of a range of women’s lives during the last two centuries.

Many women connected to Cornell are represented with work here, including Anna Botsford Comstock, Ella Condie Lamb, Virginia True, Alison Mason Kingsbury Bishop, Ruby Jean Douglas ’72, and Gizelle Begler ’08.

This exhibition was curated by Nancy E. Green, the Gale and Ira Drukier Curator of European and American Art, Prints & Drawings, 1800–1945. It was funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, with additional support from the Ames Exhibition Endowment and the Terra Foundation.

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