Sara Tyson Hallowell: Pioneer Curator and Art Advisor in the Gilded Age

In the nineteenth century, women became leaders in a myriad fields but only Sara Tyson Hallowell was able to create a lasting career as a curator of exhibitions. Throughout her life Sara Tyson Hallowell continually challenged nineteenth-century expectations about the proper place of well-born women as she worked to make a name for herself in the Chicago art world of the 1880s and 1890s.

Hardcover

Pages: 496 

Size:  8.82 x 1.38 x 10.8 in