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CFP-CAA:
Chronicling Lost Legacies: Women Collectors and Dealers of the Long Nineteenth Century
This session seeks to enhance our understanding of the American art world of the nineteenth century, by placing female tastemakers back into
their broader historical narrative. While exceptions exist, women collectors and dealers have been predominantly left out of the discourse of the history of collecting. Many of their collections were disbursed, and their papers were lost to history. In some
instances, women's identities were erased or obfuscated by their husbands or overshadowed by male contemporaries.
Over the long nineteenth century, legislative inroads enabled women to exercise a higher degree of agency over their lives. For example, in
1848, New York State approved the "Married Women's Property Act," granting women more control over their finances—including the ability to enter into contracts, inherit money in their own right, and not be liable for debts accrued by their husbands. This legislation
became a model for other states. These changes, further fueled by the growing ease of travel, increased access for buying, commissioning, and selling of art on the part of women.
With a wealth of data now accessible through newly-processed archives and digital repositories, we can begin piecing together their legacies.
As such, we seek papers that foreground contributions of lesser-known female collectors, dealers, and intermediaries within their social-historical moment, as well as those that present new insights about more iconic historical figures. Innovative research
methodologies and approaches assessing contributions made by women in the field of the history of collecting also welcomed
Contacts: Margaret
R. Laster and Samantha Deutch
Email Address: [log in to unmask]
In order to submit, gather the following and send via email to the chairs listed above ([log in to unmask])
before September 16, 2020.
Samantha Deutch, MLIS, Assistant Director
Center for the History of Collecting
Frick Art Reference Library, The Frick Collection
10 East 71st Street
New York, New York 10021
PH: 212.547.6894
Fax: 212.547.0680
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