About this image...

Image Title: A Pretty Girl In The West, circa 1889

Creator: Foote, Mary Hallock, 1847-1938, artist

Date: 1889?

Summary: Drawing shows a young woman sitting on a hammock, playing a guitar, and a man sitting on the outer wall of a covered porch.

Notes: Caption label from exhibit Drawn to Purpose Golden Age of Illustration: Romance and Courtship in the American West. This illustration accompanies an essay by Mary Hallock Foote in which she observes that eastern girls coming west attract admirers and risk encouraging romantic expectations that neither party can meet. She creates an atmosphere of restraint by positioning the young woman and man far apart and making little eye contact. When Foote married a mining engineer, she left a budding career on the East Coast, but continued illustrating and writing under often challenging conditions.|Exhibited: "The Art of the American Guitar" at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 200 N. Arthur Ashe Boulevard, Richmond, Virginia 23220, October 9, 2022-January 29, 2023.

Subjects: Couples--1880-1890
Courtship--1880-1890
Frontier & pioneer life--1880-1890
Guitars--1880-1890
Hammocks (Furniture)--1880-1890
Porches--1880-1890
West (U.S.)

Places: United States--West

Original Media: Drawing

Collections: Cabinet of American Illustration » more info...

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