Collection Highlights
Petition to Abraham Lincoln for recruitment of black troops
Date:
ca. 1862
Object Number:
MSS.BV.Petitions
Medium:
Paper
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Mary Emma Woolley (1863-1947)
Object Number:
1947.155
Date:
c. 1940-45
Medium:
Watercolor and touches of charcoal on heavy watercolor paper
Dimensions:
Overall: 20 x 15 3/4 in. ( 50.8 x 40 cm )
Marks:
signature: lower left: "Enit Kaufman"
Inscriptions:
Signed at lower left in black ink: "Enit Kaufman"
Description:
Portrait
Gallery Label:
The subject was born in Norwalk, Conn., and graduated from Wheaton Seminary in Norton, Mass., in 1884. In 1894 she was one of the first two women to receive a B.A. degree from Brown University. She began teaching at Wellesley College in 1895, and four years later she was named president of Mount Holyoke College. She held that office for thirty-seven years. She was awarded the degree of Litt.D. by Brown University in 1900.
Credit Line:
Gift of Enit Kaufman
Provenance:
Enit Kaufman and Dorothy Canfield Fisher, American Portraits (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1946)
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
