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Sign, Informational

Object number2020.21.3

MediumPlastic; Paper; Ink; Adhesive

Credit LineGift of The Twentieth Century Club

DescriptionRectangular black plastic sign. Plaque-style with front mimicking painted metal and exposed metal. Front has textured black background and silver border and inset rounded border. Front top center features raised bust portrait of woman in three-quarter view facing slightly proper right wearing a hat with feathers. Front bottom half has raised silver text providing information about Johanna Knowles Woodwell Hailman. Reverse is green and has white maker sticker in top left corner; sticker is obscured by adhesive, white paper, and brown paper that covers most of the reverse. Reverse has a few printed numbers.DimensionsHeight x Width x Depth: 10 × 8 × 0.125 in. (25.4 × 20.3 × 0.3 cm)
InscriptionsFront bottom half has raised silver text "Johanna Knowles Woodwell Hailman / 1871-1958 / The American painter, Johanna Knowles Woodwell Hailman was the / daughter of the distinguished painter Joseph R. Woodwell. One of the first / women to become a member of the Scalp Level group, she received no / formal art education but began her early training with her father. She / painted in the large studio on the Woodwell estate in Pittsburgh. Her work / was exhibited in every Carnegie International except two from the first in / 1896, when she was 25, until 1955, three years before her death. She also / exhibited regularly at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in / Philadelphia and the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh. She was a member of the Committee for Selection for the 1924 International and a silver medalist / at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco in 1915. Carnegie / Institute presented a one-woman exhibition of her work in 1927”.
MarksReverse has white maker sticker in top left corner; sticker is obscured by adhesions on reverse and is only partially legible: "B...TON / 1021 FIFTH... / (412)".

Reverse has a few printed numbers: "1" at left just below center and "7" at right just below center.
Historical NotesSign from the Twentieth Century Club's Oakland building. The Twentieth Century Club was founded in 1894 with the aim to “create an organization for women’s work, though and activity, advancing her interested, promoting art, science and literature.” Women’s clubs were part of a greater social movement in the late 1800s that grew out of the idea that women had a moral duty and responsibility to transform society and public policy. This was a progressive era movement with links to suffrage and temperance, although not all members of women’s clubs adhered to either movement. The Pittsburgh club first met at the Thompson mansion at 408 Penn Avenue. They sponsored lectures and classes on language, literature, travel, history and science and were a member of the State Federation of Women’s Clubs. In 1910, they opened a club at their present location in Oakland, and in 1930 the clubhouse was redesigned by Benno Janssen. Many of these clubs saw a decline in the 1960s.

Related person Johanna Knowles Woodwell Hailman (1871 - 1958)

Related person Joseph R. Woodwell

Related institution Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Related institution Carnegie Institute

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