Mary Hallock Foote
A Leading Illustrator of the 1870s and 1880s
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19351331 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sue Rainey (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 2/3 |
| Pages | 97-140 |
| Publication date | 2007-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Winterthur Portfolio (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0084-0416 • E-ISSN: 1545-6927 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/518924 |
| OpenAlex | W2111207758 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
When she was in her twenties, Mary Hallock Foote’s designs embellished popular periodicals and works by Whittier, Longfellow, and Hawthorne. Although her later Western fiction has received attention, the details of her illustrating career are little known. Her experiences at Cooper Union’s School of Design for Women, her commissions from 1869 through 1882, her working methods as an artist, her juggling of the roles of artist and mother, and her efforts to illustrate her own essays and stories reveal that Foote’s unprecedented accomplishments encouraged, and perhaps enabled, other women to enter this important field of popular art
Art · Art history · Visual arts · Cultural History and Identity Formation · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · Historical Art and Culture Studies · History
| Highly cited | No |
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