This episode best friends Megan & Milena cover the sculptor of the Suffrage movement, Adelaide Johnson and Dr. Anna Wessels Williams, an American pathologist who legit would be studying COVID-19 if she hadn’t passed away in 1954.

Adelaide Johnson

Life isn’t perfect. Sometimes you lose your savings to a pick pocket, sometimes your artwork arrives late to a show, and sometimes you fall down a elevator breaking just about all the bones you wouldn’t want broken. Which is any of them. This episode we cover the life of Adelaide Johnson, the sculptor of the Suffrage movement. Even with those imperfections Adelaide did not let anything get in the way of her art making. While her perfectionism bit her in the ass later in life, it resulted in art that’s uncompromising – something we can always use more of.

Selected Work

Adelaide’s most well known sculpture, the Portrait Monument, pictured here in the Crypt of the Capital in Washington DC

Adelaide pictured with her monument on it’s way the Capital Rotunda

Debut of the Portrait Monument 6 months after the passing of the 19th amendment in 1921

Visitors look over a statue titled ‘Portrait of Women’s Suffrage’ in the Rotunda at the U.S. Capitol Friday Jan 31, 2020, in Washington, as Senators continue the impeachment trial for President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

* St Louis School of Design – Founded by Mary Foote Henderson, where Adelaide received a formal art education * The Cult of Womanhood – lol what Milena and I fail at, the concept that women belong in the house as wives and mothers * White Marmorean Flock – Lead by Harriet Hosmer, was a collective of American 19th century women sculptors in Rome* Giulio Monteverde – Leading sculptor who took Adelaide on as a student * National Woman’s Suffrage Association – Founded in 1869, advocating for equal rights via the 15th amendment * 1893 World Fair in Chicago – Where Adelaide showed work alongside leading artist of the day – like