Bust of Susan B. Anthony by Adelaide Johnson, 1890s
Object Details
- artist
- Johnson, Adelaide
- depicted (sitter)
- Anthony, Susan B.
- maker
- Johnson, Adelaide
- 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.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- general subject association
- Women's Rights
- See more items in
- Political History: Political History, General History Collection
- Government, Politics, and Reform
- Woman Suffrage
- Credit Line
- Elizabeth Johnson Cristal
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- ID Number
- PL.241839.01.a
- accession number
- 241839
- catalog number
- 241839.01.a
- Object Name
- bust
- Object 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
- Record ID
- nmah_1079324