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Susan B. Anthony

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    Object Details

    Cast after

    Adelaide Johnson, 26 Sep 1859 - 10 Nov 1955

    Foundry

    Modern Art Foundry

    Sitter

    Susan B. Anthony, 15 Feb 1820 - 13 Mar 1906

    Exhibition Label

    Born Adams, Massachusetts
    Susan B. Anthony began her reform career campaigning against alcohol but soon realized that women had limited ability to promote political and social change without the right to vote. After being forbidden from speaking at a temperance rally because of her gender, Anthony devoted her life to promoting women’s suffrage. Although she was also a prominent abolitionist, Anthony disagreed that African American men should gain voting rights before women. When the Fifteenth Amendment expanded the franchise to Black men but left women out entirely, an outraged Anthony tarnished her reputation by invoking racist stereotypes as supposed evidence of white women’s superior qualifications.
    Nacida en Adams, Massachusetts
    Susan B. Anthony comenzó su carrera reformista haciendo campaña contra el alcohol, pero pronto se dio cuenta de que, sin derecho al voto, el poder de las mujeres para fomentar cambios sociales y políticos era limitado. Después de prohibírsele hablar en un mitin a favor de la abstinencia por ser mujer, dedicó su vida a promover el sufragio femenino. Aunque fue una abolicionista prominente, no creía que los hombres afroamericanos debían obtener el voto antes que las mujeres. Cuando la 15a Enmienda a la Constitución dio el sufragio a los hombres negros, excluyendo por completo a las mujeres, Anthony, furiosa, manchó su reputación invocando estereotipos racistas como supuesta prueba del mayor mérito de las mujeres blancas.

    Provenance

    Modern Art Foundry; purchased NPG 1972

    Credit Line

    National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution

    Date

    1892 (cast 1972)

    Object number

    NPG.72.116

    Restrictions & Rights

    Usage conditions apply

    Type

    Sculpture

    Medium

    Bronze

    Dimensions

    With Socle: 60 x 41.9 x 27.9cm (23 5/8 x 16 1/2 x 11")

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    National Portrait Gallery Collection

    Exhibition

    Out of Many: Portraits from 1600 to 1900

    On View

    NPG, East Gallery 112

    Data Source

    National Portrait Gallery

    Topic

    Susan B. Anthony: Female
    Susan B. Anthony: Arts and Culture\Literature\Writer
    Susan B. Anthony: Arts and Culture\Education and Scholarship\Educator\Lecturer
    Susan B. Anthony: Arts and Culture\Journalism and Media\Newspaper publisher
    Susan B. Anthony: Arts and Culture\Education and Scholarship\Educator\Teacher
    Susan B. Anthony: Social Welfare and Reform\Reformer\Social reformer\Civil rights activist\Suffragist
    Susan B. Anthony: Social Welfare and Reform\Reformer\Temperance reformer
    Susan B. Anthony: Social Welfare and Reform\Reformer\Feminist
    Portrait

    Metadata Usage

    Not determined

    Link to Original Record

    http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/sm4c427e57c-c1cf-4edf-92ff-d591f13a7b18

    Record ID

    npg_NPG.72.116

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