Bust of Susan B. Anthony by Adelaide Johnson, 1890s

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Description:

This marble bust of civil rights activist and woman’s suffrage movement leader Susan B. Anthony was sculpted by Adelaide Johnson, a feminist and artist known as the "sculptress of the Woman’s Rights Movement." Johnson’s most famous work is the portrait monument to Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony that sits in the Capitol Rotunda. This bust is very similar to the one in the Capitol and may have been a study for the Capitol bust or the bust Johnson exhibited at the Court of Honor of the Woman's Building at the World's Columbian Exhibition in 1893, on which the Capitol bust was based. It has been dated to between 1890 and 1920.

Artist: Johnson, AdelaideDepicted (Sitter): Anthony, Susan B.Maker: Johnson, Adelaide

Location: Currently not on view

General Subject Association: Women's Rights

Subject:

See more items in: Political and Military History: Political History, General History Collection, Government, Politics, and Reform, Woman Suffrage

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Credit Line: Elizabeth Johnson Cristal

Data Source: National Museum of American History

Id Number: PL.241839.01.aAccession Number: 241839Catalog Number: 241839.01.a

Object Name: bustObject Type: sculpture

Physical Description: marble (overall material)white (overall color)Measurements: overall: 24 in x 15 in x 10 in; 60.96 cm x 38.1 cm x 25.4 cm

Metadata Usage: CC0

Guid: http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-346e-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa

Record Id: nmah_1079324

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