In the Eye of the Beholder: Looking at Women’s Portrayal in Portraiture During the Suffrage Movement
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Smithsonian Learning Lab
In the Eye of the Beholder: Looking at Women’s Portrayal in Portraiture During the Suffrage Movement
This collection uses portraits from the National Portrait Gallery's exhibition, Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence. These resources are intended to facilitate classroom discussion about how women were portrayed through art during the suffragist movement. Participants are encouraged to think about who creates portraits, what motivations may exist in their creation, how the portraits were used within the movement, and their potential impact, intended or not, on the suffragists' cause.