Lucia (Fairchild) Fuller (1870-1924) was only 23 years old when she was asked to be one of four artists to paint a mural for the Woman’s Building at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. Like many exhibitions at the fair, Fuller’s “Women of Plymouth” has a Colonial Revival theme. It depicts some of the earliest “American” women performing daily tasks with simplicity and grace. Exhibitions at World’s Fairs not only catered to middle-class tastes, they helped to form that taste. The popularity of everything colonial would explode over the next several decades.
Fuller, Lucia Fairchild. Women of Plymouth. Painting. ca. 1893. Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, American Centuries. https://americancenturies.org/collection/1995-14-05/. Accessed on December 8, 2024.
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