Locating Girlhood: Place and Identity in Early American “Schoolgirl” Art
about exhibition
Featuring spectacular examples of needlework and other ornamental arts made by American girls in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, “Locating Girlhood: Place and Identity in Early American ‘Schoolgirl’ Art” sheds new light on a rich but understudied genre, offering one of the most significant presentations on the subject in recent memory.