The American Folk Art Museum’s New Schoolgirl Art Exhibition!: An Interview with Dr Emelie Gevalt and Dr Caroline Culp
Attributed to Sarah Phillips, needlework picture, probably Boston, circa 1670, collection of Jane and Gerald Katcher
Needlework picture (“Fishing Lady” scene), Boston, 1747-1750, Historic New England
Attributed to Faith Trumbull, overmantel, Connecticut, probably Lebanon, 1754, Connecticut Museum of Culture and History
Mary B. Danforth, Memorial to Enoch H. Long, probably Manchester, Massachusetts, 1823, collection of Jane and Gerald Katcher
Lydia Russell, family record, West Cambridge, now Arlington, Massachusetts, 1809, DAR Museum
Rebecca Carter, sampler, Mary Balch School, Providence, Rhode Island, 1788, American Folk Art Museum
Young African American Girl, probably Tompkins County, New York, circa 1840, private collection, courtesy of David A. Schorsch and Eileen M. Smiles
Ga-hah-no Caroline Parker Mt. Pleasant (Tonawanda Seneca Nation, Wolf Clan), New York, circa 1849, hand-coloured daguerreotype, Rochester Museum and Science Center
Mary King, needlework picture (Tree of Life), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1754, Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library
Hannah Otis, View of Boston Common, about 1750, MFA Boston
Embroidered picture based on Edward Savage print, 1800-1815, Daughters of the American Revolution
- Locating Girlhood: Place and Identity in Early American “Schoolgirl” Art exhibition: https://folkartmuseum.org/exhibitions/locating-girlhood/
- Locating Girlhood: Place and Identity in Early American “Schoolgirl” Art book: https://shop.folkartmuseum.org/locating-girlhood-place-and-identity-in-early-amer.html
