Women in the 19C United States of America: 19C American Women - Folk Art - Bonnets, Books, & Color

Tuesday, February 9, 2021

19C American Women - Folk Art - Bonnets, Books, & Color - A Few Liberated Female Readers

Jonas Holman (American artist, 1805-1873) Woman with Pink Neck Ribbon c 1830-35

John Brewster Jr. (American Painter, 1766-1854) Ann Batell Loomis 1822

Ammi Phillips (American artist, 1788-1865) c 1814-19 Mrs. Crane

John Usher Parsons (American artist, 1813-1851) Woman in Pink 1835-40

Ammi Phillips (American artist, 1788-1865) Woman with Books

Deborah Goldsmith (American artist, 1808-1836) Permilia Forbes Sweet of New York 1832

Ammi Phillips (American artist, 1788-1865) 1825 A Lady with a Book

Oliver Tarbell Eddy ( 1799-1868 ) Abbe Greiger Chavallier 1835

Ammi Phillips (American artist, 1788-1865) c 1815-19 Mrs. Stoddard Holding Bible

Joshua Johnson (American artist, 1763–1824) A Young Lady Holding a Book

Ammi Phillips (American artist, 1788-1865) Catherine Stoutenburgh

Unknown American Artist, Woman Seated 1840s

Ammi Phillips (American artist, 1788-1865) 1820 Jane Ann Campbell

Joshua Johnson (American artist, 1763–1824) Sarah Ogden Gustin

Ammi Phillips (American artist, 1788-1865) 1820 Rebecca Rouse (Mrs. Jonathan Eddy)

Joseph Whiting Stock (American artist, 1815–1855) Miss Thayer

James Brown (American artist, fl 1800-1835) Laura Hall 1808

Unknown American Artist, Martha 1810

Samuel Lovett Waldo (American artist, 1783-1861) Mrs Sackett 1839

Joshua Johnson (American artist, 1763–1824) Portrait of a Woman

Samuel Lovett Waldo (American artist, 1783-1861) Mrs Edward Kellogg 1831

Deborah Goldsmith (American artist, 1808-1836) Lady with Book

Samuel Lovett Waldo (American artist, 1783-1861) Lady of the Buloid Family?

Joshua Johnson (American artist, 1763–1824) Young Lady on a Red Sofa with a Book

Deborah Goldsmith (American artist, 1808-1836) Woman in Blue

Erastus Salisbury Field (American artist, 1805–1900) Clarissa Gallond Cook

Thomas Eakins (American Realist Painter, 1844-1916) The Artist's Wife Susan MacDowel Eakins and their Setter Dog
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About this blog

In colonial America, men were considered superior to woman in all ways. In a strict patriarchal hierarchy, men controlled not only wealth & political power but also how their children were raised, religious questions, & all matters of right & wrong.

In the early part of the 19Cy, however, many Americans experienced a revolution in gender. The doctrine of “separate spheres” maintained that woman’s sphere was the world of privacy, family, & morality while man’s sphere was the public world -– economic striving, political maneuvering, & social competition. But women were interested in equality.

In 1848, New York passed the Married Woman’s Property Act. Now a woman wasn’t automatically liable for her husband’s debts; she could enter contracts on her own; she could collect rents or receive an inheritance in her own right; she could file a lawsuit on her own behalf. She became for economic purposes, an individual. By 1900, every state has passed legislation modeled after this, granting married women some control over their property and earnings.

In 1870 after the Civi War, the 15th Amendment was ratified, saying, “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” African-Americans could vote, but women could not.

But it was not until 1920, that the 19th Amendment was ratified granting women the right to vote. “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.”