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Emily Noyes Vanderpoel in her New York studio. Courtesy Litchfield Historical Society.
In the Hall of Honor of the Woman’s Building at the 1893 Chicago World’s Columbian Exposition hung a watercolor painting titled The Spirit of the 19th Century. It was among those awarded the fair’s highest jury commendation — a bronze medal designed by Augustus Saint-Gaudens— and was the work of a 51-year-old artist named Emily Noyes Vanderpoel, the author of this fascinating book and creator of the prescient works of art held within. [1]
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Alan Bruton, 2018
1. Regarded as the first structure of national importance to be designed by a woman and run by women. Designed by Boston architect Sophia Hayden, with the program curated by the Board of Lady Managers, which included women of both the progressively conservative rear-guard and the progressively liberal vote-getting avant-guard. See Weimann, Jeanne M. The Fair Women: [the Story of the Woman’s Building, World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago 1893]. Chicago: Academy, 1981. Across the Exposition, the top 20 percent of exhibitors in each category were awarded the bronze medal. In the Woman’s Building this grouping was in the Hall of Honor. See World’s Columbian Exposition, 1893 : Official Catalogue : pt. XIV, Woman’s Building, Pg 45.
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