Feminine Art of the Gilded Age · About

About the Author

Sara Zucker is a second-semester graduate student on the path to receive a Master of Science in Museums & Digital Culture at Pratt Institute's iSchool. In 2009, Sara received an MLIS from CUNY Queen College with Advanced Certifiaction in Archives, Preservation, and Records Management. With a long-standing personal interest in the Gilded Age and its societal norms, she acted as Processing Archivist at the Vanderbilt Museum & Planetarium in Centerport, New York, from 2009-2010.

Methodology

The following vocabularies provided the elements that best described the items in this collection:

Dublin Core
Getty Art and Architecture Thesaurus
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Getty Union List of Artist Names
Library of Congress Subject Headings

Scope & Purpose

To explain the organization of item pages in the collection, a few fields were altered quite significantly along with the order in which fields were placed. It was important that the Model (or, the Gilded Age woman, in this case) be prominently placed, even above the Artist in most cases, to further elevate them. Though some of those women remain unavailable when searching vocabularies, their names are recorded nonetheless. I also felt it important to include the Location of each item so that the Art Guide could be created to make the collection walkable and, therefore, interactive.

References

Sources used in the historical research required to create this website.

Artists

“Berthe Morisot.” Wikipedia, 19 Apr. 2024. Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Berthe_Morisot&oldid=1219785558.
“Emilie Louise Flöge.” Wikipedia, 22 Feb. 2024. Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Emilie_Louise_Fl%C3%B6ge&oldid=1209553707.
“Emma Stebbins.” Wikipedia, 5 Nov. 2023. Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Emma_Stebbins&oldid=1183658758.
“Gabriele Münter.” Wikipedia, 4 Mar. 2024. Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gabriele_M%C3%BCnter&oldid=1211783648.
“Käthe Kollwitz.” Wikipedia, 8 Apr. 2024. Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=K%C3%A4the_Kollwitz&oldid=1217830936.
“Marianne Brandt (Contralto).” Wikipedia, 30 Nov. 2023. Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marianne_Brandt_(contralto)&oldid=1187571296.
“Paula Modersohn-Becker.” Wikipedia, 11 Apr. 2024. Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Paula_Modersohn-Becker&oldid=1218419727.

Models