FROM THE REPUBLICAN MOTHER TO THE TRUE WOMAN (Family roles, work, fashion, and the creation of paradise) Spencer: Fi, Fo, Fum! 1858 Spencer: This little pig went to market...1857 Self-portrait, 1841 Domestic Happiness Is she a sentimentalist or a comic? What standards should we use to judge her art? 1849 Godey's Lady's Book: a sentimental education for women? Sarah Hale and the magazine as a performance *"the progress of female improvement" *the female sphere *quiet influence Asher Durand: The Wife, 1831 (engraving by S. B. Morse) The confidante (GLB) Shake hands? 1854 Young Husband, First Marketing, 1856 Maternal Education, in "Godey's Lady's Book" (illustration to a story) Mother and Child, 1858 August 1859 (GLB) ImagePage 1 of 7
January 1859 (GLB) Winslow Homer, News from the war (Harper's weekly, June 14 1862, lithograph) Currier & Ives: Domestic Blockade (handcolored lithograph, 1862) Currier & Ives: The Brave Wife, litho. 1861: a "farewell" print Homer: The Letter Home, 1862 (litho.) what don't we see in GLB? Barbara Frietchie (1868 and 1920) Spencer: War Spirit at Home, 1866 ImagePage 2 of 7
The House as another Female Performance architecture in the 19th century: Industrial, anti-picturesque, or picturesque functionalism? Old Slater Mill, Rhode Island, 1793 Lippitt Mill 1809, West Warwick, Rhode Island. the emergence of the corporate town: Boston Manufacturing Co., founded in 1813 by Francis Cabot Lowell; Merrimack Co., 1822, in Lowell, replaces the BMC Lafayette Terrace: Facade Ithiel Town and A. J. Davis, 1836, New York City George H. Durrie: Ithiel Town Bridge Near East Rock. 1847, oil on canvas, 28 x 35 1/2 in View of Lowell, MA, ca. 1850 (top) William Munson: The Eli Whitney Gun Factory, 1826 ImagePage 3 of 7
Downing and Beecher's answers 1--What Andrew Jackson Downing proposed: fitness, style, and purpose: an aesthetic vision Catherine Beecher: The American Woman's Home Treatise on Domestic Economy What did CB propose? a vision of social and economic function, not aesthetics Gothic cottage: basement floor ImagePage 4 of 7
first floor second floor movable partition and wardrobe house in Godey's Lady's Book New Harmony: Project for an Ideal Community, conceived by Robert Owen, designed by Stedman Whitwell Guise: Familistere (social palace): Ext.: complex housing, bakery, cafe, schools, theater, restaurant begun 1859, Guise (France) cooking stove communitarian socialists ImagePage 5 of 7
Charles Fourier: the Phalanstery "Mother Ann Lee" and the Shakers, 1774 Shaker communities: Pleasant Hill KY Hancock MA Watervliet NY Enfield Village NH Lebanon NY Gift from Mother Ann to Elders at North family Hancock, Mass. Pleasant Hill [Kentucky], George Kendall, after Isaac N. Youngs, August 1834 1854 ink, watercolor 19x12" East Family Dwelling House Pleasant Hill Family Dwelling 1824-1834 1817 Pleasant Hill, Kentucky Meeting House: Pleasant Hill 1820 Pleasant Hill, Kentucky Central Hall, Pleasant Hill, Kentucky 1824-34 ImagePage 6 of 7
Community at Watervliet, N.Y., 1870 Pleasant Hill Dining Room Pleasant Hill, Kentucky Eastman Johnson: The Hatch Family 1870-71, Oil on canvas, 48 x 73 3/8 in. the resurgence of the family portrait Seymour Guy: The Contest for the Bouquet: The Family of Robert Gordon in their New York Dining-Room, 1866 Oil on canvas, 24 5/8 x 29 1/2 in. Church Family Dwelling House: Hancock 1830 Hancock, Massachusetts The Brown Family Eastman Johnson, 1869 oil on canvas 38 1/2 x 32 3/8 ImagePage 7 of 7