Separate education for American women in the arts began in the mid-19th century as an innovative vehicle for middle-class women to move into a new and genteel profession. The 20th century evolution of the Philadelphia School of Design for Women, lone survivor as an autonomous school of many similar institutions founded at the same time, presents an unusually well-documented case study of meeting the changing needs of women students.
The first American institutions devoted to women's professional art education, design schools appeared in industrial northeastern cities in the 1850s,...
Separate education for American women in the arts began in the mid-19th century as an innovative vehicle for middle-class women to move into a new ...
