Volpe Gallery

As political, economic, and industrial changes ushered in the modern era during the 1800s, women in Europe and the United States took advantage of opportunities to establish more public lives outside their traditional roles in the home. By the 1880s, a generation of “new women” were pursuing higher education, entering the workforce, and joining efforts to establish rights previously denied to women, including the right to vote. The works in this exhibition show women in Paris and London participating in the professional and leisure activities newly available to them at the turn of the twentieth century.

Organized by Christine Giviskos, Curator of Prints, Drawings, and European Art