Artful lives : the Francis Watts Lee family and their times / Patricia J. Fanning.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fanning, Patricia J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lee, Francis Watts.

Lee family.

Photographers--United States--Biography.

Photographers.

United States.

Printers--United States--Biography.

Printers.

United States--Social life and customs--19th century.

Manners and customs.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

x, 205 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2016]

Summary:

Francis Watts Lee and his family hold, a special place in the history of American photography. The striking portrait of the child and her mother titled Blessed Art Thou among Women, pictured on the front of this book, is one of Gertrude Käsebier's most iconic compositions. In Artful Lives, Patricia J. Fanning uses this photo and other significant images as guideposts to explore the Fee family and the art and culture of their age. Utilizing previously unknown family archives and institutional sources, Fanning traces the Lees' story in the context of major artistic, political, social, and religious trends, inducting the Arts and Crafts movement, Christian Socialism, and Aestheticism, while also showing how their experiences reflected the national culture's evolving conceptions of family, gender, childhood, medicine, deaf education, and mourning. This richly drawn and gracefully written account of one family informs our understanding of this vibrant era, in Boston and well beyond. Book jacket.

Contents:

Francis Watts Lee

Agnes Rand Lee

Harriet Templeton "Peggy" Lee

Blessed art thou among women

The daughters of Francis Watts Lee

The heritage of motherhood

Alice Stephana Lee

Marion Lewis Chamberlain Lee

Francis Watts Lee.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781625342072

1625342071

9781625342065

1625342063

OCLC:

930997444