The Woman Suffrage Statue: A History of Adelaide Johnson's Portrait Monument to Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony at the United States Capitol

by Sandra Weber

Overview

Relegated to the Crypt of the Capitol building for 76 years, the Portrait Monument has stood in the Rotunda since 1997. Often referred to as the Suffrage Statue, it memorializes pioneering feminists Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony and is the sole sculptural representation of women in the Rotunda. From its conception by sculptor Adelaide Johnson as three separate busts to its laborious execution and celebrated placement in the Rotunda, the seven-ton sculpture has provoked frustration, jubilation and hullabaloo. Drawing on diaries, letters, newspapers and historic photographs, this first-ever history of the monument explores the controversy, myths and artistry behind this neoclassical yet unconventional work of art.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781476624228
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	05/03/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	12 MB
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Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Sandra Weber is an author, independent scholar, lecturer, and storyteller who enjoys exploring and writing regional history and women’s history. She lives in Elizabethtown, New York.
Sandra Weber is an author, independent scholar, lecturer, and storyteller who enjoys exploring and writing regional history and women's history. She lives in Elizabethtown, New York.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Terminology viii
Preface
Introduction
PART ONE—Adelaide Johnson and the Great Three
1. A Sculptress
2. Making the Great Three
3. The Woman Movement
4. 1893 World Fair
5. Of Eminent Women and Bridesmaids
6. Bust Fund Conflict
PART TWO—A Monument to Woman
7. New Face of Suffrage
8. Of Carrara Marble and Hard Luck
9. With Ratification Goes the Rotunda
10. Up the Steps of the Capitol
11. The Supreme, the Wonderful Day
12. Down in the Crypt
PART THREE—An Entity to Be Reckoned
13. Golden Words
14. A Work of Art
15. Resurrecting Equal Rights
16. Forward into Light
17. Import of the Woman Movement
18. Glory of Washington
PART FOUR—Take Up the Song
19. Semantics
20. In the Halls of the Capitol
21. Raise the Statue
22. Adding Truth
23. Unfinished Work
Conclusion
Timeline
Brief Biographies
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index