Collection Highlights
Cake board
Date:
1825-1835
Object Number:
1937.1562
Medium:
Wood (possibly mahogany)
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Anne Morgan (1873-1952)
Object Number:
1951.457
Date:
1937
Medium:
Bronze painted plaster
Dimensions:
Overall: 34 1/2 x 24 x 16 in. ( 87.6 x 61 x 40.6 cm )
Marks:
signed: under proper right arm: "MALVINA"
Description:
Portrait bust
Gallery Label:
The subject, daughter of J. Pierpont and Frances Louisa (Tracy) Morgan, was born in New York. She was the author of "The American Girl: Her Education, Her Responsibility, Her Recreation, Her Future" (1915) in which she put forth her ideas on the rights and privileges due the "modern" female in America. A bronze version of this portrait is owned by the American Women's Association, of which Morgan served as president from 1928 to 1943.
Credit Line:
Gift of the artist
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
