As political, economic, and industrial changes ushered in the modern era during the 1800s, women in Europe and the United States took advantage of opportunities to establish more public lives outside their traditional roles in the home.  By the 1880s, a generation of “new women” were pursuing higher education, entering the workforce, and joining efforts to establish rights previously denied to women, including the right to vote. The works in this exhibition show women in Paris and London participating in the professional and leisure activities newly available to them at the turn of the twentieth century. A selection of works by women artists working during the period is on view throughout the permanent collection galleries for European Art.

Organized by Christine Giviskos, Curator of Prints, Drawings, and European Art

Clémentine-Hélène Dufau
La Fronde, c. 1898 (cover)
Lithograph on paper
Collection Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University
Gift of Harold and Barbara Kaplan
Photo Peter Jacobs

85.144.011

Image: 24 × 32.7 cm (9 7/16 × 12 7/8 in.)
Sheet: 29.5 × 37.2 cm (11 5/8 × 14 5/8 in.)

Archibald S. Hartrick
Women Painters from the portfolio War Work: A Portfolio 1914-1918, 1918 (portfolio)
Lithograph
Collection Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University
Gift of Herbert D. and Ruth Schimmel
Photo Peter Jacobs

1995.0200.009

Overall: 47 x 31 cm (18 1/2 x 12 3/16 in.)
Overal Image: 41 x 25 cm (16 1/8 x 9 13/16 in.)

Hermann-Paul (Hermann Réne Georges Paul)
Color lithograph on paper
Collection Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University
Herbert Littman Purchase Fund
Photo Peter Jacobs

84.047.076

Image: 30.3 x 22 cm (11 15/16 x 8 11/16 in.)
Sheet: 57 × 42.9 cm (22 7/16 × 16 7/8 in.)

Etienne Moreau-Nelaton
Les Arts de la Femme, 1895
Lithograph
Collection Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University
James and Diane Burke Purchase Fund
Photo Jack Abraham

1988.0789

Overall: 121 x 77 cm (47 5/8 x 30 5/16 in.)
Overal Image: 121 x 77 cm (47 5/8 x 30 5/16 in.)

Unidentified artist
Cycles G. Richard, c. 1900
Photomechanical print on paper
Collection Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University
Gift of Herbert D. and Ruth Schimmel
Photo Peter Jacobs

1988.0328

Image: 16.8 × 11.3 cm (6 5/8 × 4 7/16 in.)
Sheet: 16.8 × 11.3 cm (6 5/8 × 4 7/16 in.)