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Art by American women constitutes eight percent of the Terra's collection and includes oil and watercolor paintings, pastels, and various types of prints. (updated 2/2019, following deaccessions)
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Emily Eastman
Date: c. 1820–30
Credit Line: Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection
Object number: 1999.51
Text Entries: During the 1820s-1830s, Emily Eastman, of Louden, New Hampshire, painted watercolor portraits adapted from prints. The flattened design of Young Woman with Flowers in Her Hair-the boldly arched eyebrows, porcelain-like, expressionless face and the corkscrew curls of her hair-is an accomplished yet stylized characterization.
There were few women itinerant artists active in the nineteenth century. Ladies' journals such as the popular Domestic Duties, by Frances Byerly Parke, encouraged drawing as an "appropriate morning activity" for middle-class women desiring refinement.