Susan B. Anthony
Object Details
- Date
- 1892 (cast 1972)
- Cast after
- Adelaide Johnson, 26 Sep 1859 - 10 Nov 1955
- Foundry
- Modern Art Foundry
- Sitter
- Susan Brownell Anthony, 15 Feb 1820 - 13 Mar 1906
- Exhibition Label
- Born Adams, Massachusetts
- Susan B. Anthony began her reform career campaigning against alcohol but soon realized that women had limited ability to promote political and social change without the right to vote. After being forbidden from speaking at a temperance rally because of her gender, Anthony devoted her life to promoting women’s suffrage. Although she was also a prominent abolitionist, Anthony disagreed that African American men should gain voting rights before women. When the Fifteenth Amendment expanded the franchise to Black men but left women out entirely, an outraged Anthony tarnished her reputation by invoking racist stereotypes as supposed evidence of white women’s superior qualifications.
- Nacida en Adams, Massachusetts
- Susan B. Anthony comenzó su carrera reformista haciendo campaña contra el alcohol, pero pronto se dio cuenta de que, sin derecho al voto, el poder de las mujeres para fomentar cambios sociales y políticos era limitado. Después de prohibírsele hablar en un mitin a favor de la abstinencia por ser mujer, dedicó su vida a promover el sufragio femenino. Aunque fue una abolicionista prominente, no creía que los hombres afroamericanos debían obtener el voto antes que las mujeres. Cuando la 15a Enmienda a la Constitución dio el sufragio a los hombres negros, excluyendo por completo a las mujeres, Anthony, furiosa, manchó su reputación invocando estereotipos racistas como supuesta prueba del mayor mérito de las mujeres blancas.
- Provenance
- Modern Art Foundry; purchased NPG 1972
- Topic
- Susan Brownell Anthony: Female
- Susan Brownell Anthony: Literature\Writer
- Susan Brownell Anthony: Education and Scholarship\Educator\Lecturer
- Susan Brownell Anthony: Journalism and Media\Newspaper publisher
- Susan Brownell Anthony: Education and Scholarship\Educator\Teacher
- Susan Brownell Anthony: Social Welfare and Reform\Reformer\Social reformer\Civil rights activist\Suffragist
- Susan Brownell Anthony: Social Welfare and Reform\Reformer\Temperance
- Susan Brownell Anthony: Social Welfare and Reform\Reformer\Feminist
- Portrait
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- National Portrait Gallery Collection
- Exhibition
- Out of Many: Portraits from 1600 to 1900
- On View
- NPG, East Gallery 112
- Credit Line
- National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
- Data Source
- National Portrait Gallery
- Object number
- NPG.72.116
- Type
- Sculpture
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Medium
- Bronze
- Dimensions
- With Socle: 60 x 41.9 x 27.9cm (23 5/8 x 16 1/2 x 11")
- Record ID
- npg_NPG.72.116