This is a series begun in 2004 while living in Charleston, SC. My friend, a womens history professor, got me thinking about historical biases and I began to consider the fallacies that lay before me. What"s up with those people painted on ivory...
Catherine Bohlen, here, is the 21 year old daughter of Jane G and John Bohlen, a Philadelphia merchant born in Germany. Seated in profile, the homely yet imposing sitter wears a blue brocade dress with lace pelerine and cameo at her corsage and an ermine stole draped over her shoulders, her hair in a Victorian loop. Original 1850. Collection of Yale. Completed February 2012. Sold.
