Reframing Allegory in Work by American Women Painters of the Gilded Age

Addressing paintings depicting idealized and allegorical female figures, this book presents a series of six case studies of US women artists. Lisa N. Peters posits that the indirectness and subterfuge used in this type of work afforded nineteenth-century US women a means of self-expression and self-reflection, not otherwise easily available. The six case studies cover the artists Lilly Martin Spen...