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This exhibition depicts women on both ends of the societal spectrum during the Gilded Age of America, and also commemorates a recent gift from the Sansom Foundation of works by William J. Glackens and his circle. The title references the phrase used in the late 19th century, to characterize newly present women of the middle and upper class who were beginning to participate in urban life. At the same time, Modernism was taking shape in both art and society, and women were beginning to stake a position in both realms. Glackens and his wife, artist Edith Dimock, actively participated in the Women’s Suffrage movement. Their representation of female figures was shaped by the vantage of their social consciousness. and it is between these two spheres of the domestic and the bohemian, that the New Woman of the twentieth century would take form. Curated by

NSU Art Museum Bryant-Taylor Curator Ariella Wolens.