1887, Jennie Augusta Brownscombe, Love's Young Dream -- National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington)
From the museum label: Brownscombe portrayed idealized visions of traditional American rural life and family. Here a young woman pauses at the edge of the porch to gaze toward the road at a distant rider, presumably her romantic interest. Posed on the threshold of her childhood home, she appears primed to assume her prescribed social roles of wife and mother. By contrast, Brownscombe, who never married and supported herself with her art, embodied the “New Woman,” a turn-of-the-century icon who exercised greater control over her personal, social, and economic choices.
1887, Jennie Augusta Brownscombe, Love's Young Dream -- National Museum of Women in the Arts (Washington)
From the museum label: Brownscombe portrayed idealized visions of traditional American rural life and family. Here a young woman pauses at the edge of the porch to gaze toward the road at a distant rider, presumably her romantic interest. Posed on the threshold of her childhood home, she appears primed to assume her prescribed social roles of wife and mother. By contrast, Brownscombe, who never married and supported herself with her art, embodied the “New Woman,” a turn-of-the-century icon who exercised greater control over her personal, social, and economic choices.