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Art, Industry, and Women's Education in Philadelphia
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Art, Industry, and Women's Education in Philadelphia

Nina de Angeli Walls Nina de Angeli Walls

October 2000

Praeger

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An intensive study of the social and cultural context of a women's vocational art school which gives an unusual view of the history of higher education for women and the history of American art

Separate education for American women in the arts began in the mid-19th century as an innovative vehicle for middle-class women to move into a new and genteel profession. The 20th century evolution of the Philadelphia School of Design for Women, lone survivor as an autonomous school of many similar institutions founded at the same time, presents an unusually well-documented case study of meeting the changing needs of women students.

The first American institutions devoted to women's professional art education, design schools appeared in industrial northeastern cities in the 1850s, modeled on Philadelphia's pioneering School of Design for Women, which opened in 1848. Sponsored by business leaders and philanthropists, design schools gave women unprecedented access to craft skills, and eventually helped professionalize the work of women as art teachers and practicing artists. Separate education in the arts constituted an innovative vehicle for expanding Victorian-era middle-class gender prescriptions into new professional opportunities. Through the 20th century, the Philadelphia School of Design and its successor, Moore College of Art, survived as the nation's only autonomous women's art college, offering new educational options for women.
Introduction
Calicos and Carpets
`Designing Women' as Students
Managing a Women's Art School
The Sartain Legacy, 1886-1946
Proud Alumnae, `Wage Earners and Artists'
Moore College in the 20th Century
Bibliographical Essay
Endorsements
In this fine book, Nina de Angeli Walls reclaims the important story of a school devoted to training women in the arts since 1848. Through the history of the Philadelphia School of Design for Women, she reasserts women's place in the cultural history of art education and in the wider context of American art history. Her careful analysis expands our understanding of women's careers, the professionalization of art education, the ecology of Philadelphia's educational institutions, and the biographies of significant 19th century women educational leaders.—Linda Eisenmann^LAssociate Professor of Education^LEditor, ^IHistorical Dictionary of Women's Education in the United States^R^LUniversity of Massachusetts Boston





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