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Shake Hands? Lilly Martin Spencer and the Politics of Art

Masten, April F. "Shake Hands? Lilly Martin Spencer and the Politics of Art." American Quarterly 56, no. 2 (2004).
Type
journal
Genre
criticism
history
Abstract

An article about the artist Lily Marten Spencer, which mentions that 2 miniatures by Miss Anna Mary Freeman were shown at the 1854 National Academy Exhibition.

People Mentioned in this Work
Goldbeck, Mary [pages: 383]

Mentions that unlike Lily Marten Spencer's controversial painting, works by other women artists, inlcuding "Miss Anna Mary Freeman's two miniatures," received no mention in a New-York Daily Tribune review of the 1854 National Academy Exhibition.