Women--Kentucky--Louisville; Social reformers--Kentucky--Louisville--History; Morel, Louise C., b. 1871
Louise C. Morel was a leading social reformer in Louisville from 1917 through the early 1940s. Morel's work is a primary example of the continuation of Progressive Era ideals into the decades after the traditional end of the Progressive Era....
Studio portrait of unidentified woman wearing a hat and long dress. Imprint on frame: "Standiford, 532 Fourth Ave., Louisville, Ky." Possibly the photographer's mother, Minnie Freeman Matlack. Title supplied by cataloger.
Studio portrait of an unidentified young woman, signed by "Klauber." Imprint on frame: "Klauber, Mezzotint, Louisville". May be Ada Freeman (b. 1891?) who, according to the U.S. Census, was living with the Matlack family in 1900...
Performance art; Performances; Painting; Body painting; Locomotion; Human locomotion; Artists; Men; Dandies; Women; Nudes; Audiences; Spectators; Orchestras; Music ensembles; Musicians; Sitting; Musical instruments; Clothing & dress; Suits...
"This performance exemplifies Klein's participation in the masculinist tradition of the dandy. The self-contained male, renouncing biological productivity (symbolized by the 'fecundity' of the paint-covered women launching themselves at...
