Ethel Wallace

Modern Rebel

Tara Kaufman

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University of Pennsylvania Press
14 November 2023

Textile artworks; Exhibition catalogues & specific collections; Fashion & society

"In 1921, New York newspapers declared artist Ethel Wallace (1886-1968) a pioneer a batik portraits, the ""newest rage in art,"" and Vogue Paris described her portraits as ""personal and original"" and ""modern and unexpected"" in its July issue. Wallace also created designs for fashion, and her adaptation of batik, a Javanese method of dyeing cloth, became a coveted trend among New York's elite in the 1910s and '20s. Her clothing designs and batik paintings aligned with the feminism of the New Woman and resonated with the Roaring Twenties obsession with wealth and opulence.

After the onset of the Great Depression, Wallace returned to her hometown of Lambertville, New Jersey, near the artistic community of New Hope, Pennsylvania, where she immersed herself in modernist art circles but struggled to maintain her career's momentum amid economic upheaval. Since her death in 1968, Wallace's body of work has remained behind the closed doors of private collections. Ethel Wallace: Modern Rebel marks the first comprehensive study of the artist's career and is published in conjunction with the first exhibition of her work in decades, curated by Tara Kaufman and held at the James A. Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. With essays by fashion historians Kaufman and Dr. Michael Mamp, this book investigates how Wallace's work-from her writings to her paintings and clothing designs-traces the development of two centers of modernism in the United States, New Hope, and New York, and the progression and reception of feminism in the early twentieth century.

Contributors: Tara Kaufman, Michael E. Mamp, Jeniah Johnson."

Edited by: Tara Kaufman
Imprint: University of Pennsylvania Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 286mm, Width: 210mm,
ISBN: 9781879636156
ISBN 10: 1879636158
Pages: 80
Publication Date: 14 November 2023
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Foreword Laura Turner Igoe Remembering Ethel (acknowledgements) Jeniah Johnson A Modern Rebel (essay) Tara Kaufman Ethel Wallace: Fashioning Batik (essay) Michael Mamp Exhibition History Acknowledgments Tara Kaufman Author Biographies

Tara Kaufman is Associate Curator of Clothing and Textiles at History Colorado. A former Assistant Curator at the James A. Michener Art Museum, she curated WaléOyéjidé: Flight of the Dreamer (2022) and co-curated, with Dr. Laura Turner Igoe, Through the Lens: Modern Photography in the Delaware Valley (2021) at the Michener. She specializes in modern and contemporary American art, and her research has been supported by the Smithsonian American Art Museum. She received her Master of Arts in art history from Temple University’s Tyler School of Art and Architecture.

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Ethel Wallace

Modern Rebel

Tara Kaufman

$62.50

Hardback

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