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Ellen Emmet Rand (1875-1941) was one of the most important and prolific portraitists in the United States in the first decades of the 20th century. She negotiated her career, reputation, family, and finances in modern and commercially savvy ways, revealing the complex negotiations needed to balance these competing pressures. Engaging with newly available archival documents and featuring scholars with radically different approaches to visual culture, this book not only seeks to interrogate the meaning of Rand's portraits and her career, but indeed to rethink gender, art, race, business, and modernism in the 20th century.
List of contents
List of Plates
List of Figures
Series Editor's Introduction
Acknowledgements
Introduction, The Rewilding of Ellen Emmet Rand,
Alexis L. Boylan (University of Connecticut, USA)Part 1: Crafting a Career1. Ellen Emmet Rand's
Self-Portrait: Picturing the Professional Body,
Betsy Fahlman (Arizona State University, USA)2.
Among Women, between Men: Launching a Career, 1896-1900,
Elizabeth Lee (Dickinson College, USA)3. People, Places, Prizes, and Prices,
Susan Spiggle (University of Connecticut, USA)Part 2: Working the Scene4. The Power of Profile: Ellen Emmet Rand and Augustus Saint-Gaudens,
Thayer Tolles (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA)5. Work What You've Got: The Contrasting Careers of Tade Styka and Ellen Emmet Rand,
William Ashley Harris (Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, USA) 6. Artist and Amazon: The Sporting Paintings of Ellen Emmet Rand,
Claudia P. Pfeiffer (National Sporting Library & Museum, USA)Part 3: Shifting Bodies7. Hide and Seek: Ellen Emmet Rand, Childhood and US Art Study in France,
c. 1898,
Emily C. Burns (Auburn University, USA)8. Ellen Emmet Rand, Bourgeois Portraiture, and the Disruption of Ideological Fantasy,
Christopher Vials (University of Connecticut, USA)9. Painting the President: The Body Politics of Ellen Emmet Rand's Franklin D. Roosevelt Portraits,
Emily M. Mazzola (University of Pittsburgh, USA)Bibliography
Author Biographies
Index
About the author
Alexis L. Boylan is Assistant Professor in the Art and Art History Department and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Program at the University of Connecticut, USA.
Summary
Ellen Emmet Rand (1875-1941) was one of the most important and prolific portraitists in the United States in the first decades of the 20th century. She negotiated her career, reputation, family, and finances in modern and commercially savvy ways, revealing the complex negotiations needed to balance these competing pressures. Engaging with newly available archival documents and featuring scholars with radically different approaches to visual culture, this book not only seeks to interrogate the meaning of Rand’s portraits and her career, but indeed to rethink gender, art, race, business, and modernism in the 20th century.
Foreword
This book critically considers the career of Ellen Emmet Rand (1875-1941), one of the most important and prolific portrait painters in the USA in the first decades of the 20th century and reimagines dialogues about women, art, business, and modernism.
Additional text
In this invaluable exploration of Rand’s art and career, Boylan and her co-contributors critically mine an array of archival material, while attending closely to her portraits. Situating her personal aesthetic and patronage in a broader socio-economic context, they reveal why Rand matters then and now.
