Telling Picturing Women Home  
Juxtaposition by
Susan Shifrin, Curator

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Niura Norskaya or Head of a Dancer.

Untitled [Martha Graham].

Introduction

How do these images tell you about their sitters visually? Can you tell who the sitters are and what they do in their lives without looking at the titles?

Once you have looked at the titles for each of the images: how do the images by Jacobi and Peterich tell different stories about two women who lead similar professional lives? What do you see in the images that tells those stories? And how do the two other images tell different stories about the same sitter?


Harriet Beecher Stowe.

Harriet Beecher Stowe.