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The American Women quarters program is a series of quarters featuring notable women in U.S. history, commemorating the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. [ 1] The United States Mint is issuing five designs each year from 2022 to 2025 for 20 total designs. One woman will be honored on the reverse of each ...
The Helga Pictures. Helga Testorf portrayed in Braids (1979) by Andrew Wyeth. The Helga Pictures are a series of more than 268 paintings and drawings of German model Helga Testorf (born c. 1933 [ 1][ 2] or c. 1939 [ 3][ 4]) created by American artist Andrew Wyeth between 1971 and 1985.
Sophia Smith. The collection was established by Margaret Storrs Grierson in 1942 to serve as the library's distinctive contribution to the college's mission of educating women. [6] The collection was later named after the founder of Smith College, Sophia Smith, who upon her death in 1870 willed her fortune of $387,468 (approximately $7,000,000. ...
The quilts of Gee's Bend are quilts created by a group of women and their ancestors who live or have lived in the isolated African-American hamlet of Gee's Bend, Alabama along the Alabama River. The quilting tradition can be dated back to the nineteenth century and endures to this day. The residents of Gee’s Bend, Alabama, are direct ...
Angelica Kauffman. 1787. 1928. Self-portrait in Uffizi. Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun. 1790. 1905. Self-portrait with three collars. Jacques-Louis David.
poster from 1943. " We Can Do It! " is an American World War II wartime poster produced by J. Howard Miller in 1943 for Westinghouse Electric as an inspirational image to boost female worker morale. The poster was little seen during World War II. It was rediscovered in the early 1980s and widely reproduced in many forms, often called "We Can Do ...
Coordinates: 45°25′50″N 12°19′52″E. The Peggy Guggenheim museum as seen from the Grand Canal. The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is an art museum on the Grand Canal in the Dorsoduro sestiere of Venice, Italy. It is one of the most visited attractions in Venice. The collection is housed in the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, an 18th-century ...
The Gerritsen Collection (also known as the Gerritsen Collection of Aletta H. Jacobs or the Gerritsen Collection of Women's History) is a diverse collection of women's archival materials and feminist records covering fifteen languages and over 4,700 volumes. Acquired by the John Crerar Library of Chicago in 1903, it was subsequently sold to the ...