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Women's Building, Chicago World Fair - 1893
The exhibition provided Adelaide Johnson with her first international recognition and validated her as a professional artist. Johnson would later remark that the days were over when women artists were “looked upon with curiosity, classed and perhaps indulged as freaks.”
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Johnson emphasized that men had realized
the value of great monuments a long time ago---
“monumenting themselves and their achievements all over the planet.”
The important thing for the woman movement was the creation of worthy monuments to great women.
the value of great monuments a long time ago---
“monumenting themselves and their achievements all over the planet.”
The important thing for the woman movement was the creation of worthy monuments to great women.
Janet Scudder
When asked to produce a portrait statue of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to be placed in Washington, D.C., Janet Scudder said, “I won't do it!...I won't add to this obsession of male egotism that is ruining every city in the United States with rows of hideous statues of men-men-men -- each one uglier than the other -- standing, sitting, riding horseback every one of them pompously convinced that he is decorating the landscape.” |