John and Dolly Sloan
A seated female figure at left and standing male figure at right are depicted in a frontal view.
John Butler Yeats, Irish artist, 1839–1922
Delaware Art Museum, Gift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1977
July 1910
© Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction or publication.
Graphite on paper
JUST SUPPOSE. Lawyer Hetty-- Is that another of those crazy Man's Rights cranks? Commissioner Gladys-- Yes, that's Anthony B. Susan. He doesn't dare argue with a full grown woman, but he picks out a little one like Alderman Gertie, and talks her to death
Louis Glackens, American illustrator and cartoonist, 1866–1933
1905
Delaware Art Museum
Kent Bicentennial Portfolio: Spirit of Independence
P. Lorillard Company
P. Lorillard Company
1975
Catalogue
One of These May Vote in New York State, Which Is It?
Two nude figures are depicted from the lower rib cage to the knee with fig leaves covering their groin areas.
[Text: One of these may vote in New York State, Which is it? We might give you a mental experts analysis of the brain power of each --but that wouldnt help you neither would an endurance test]
John Sloan, American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951
Delaware Art Museum, Gift of Helen Farr Sloan, 2000
1911
© Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Ink on paper, 8 × 12 7/16 in. (20.3 × 31.6 cm)
Sketch for Women at the Polls in New Jersey in the Good Old Times
A cluster of women in a room is lightly rendered in pencil. Seated figures flank the central women at lower right and lower left.
Howard Pyle, American illustrator, 1853–1911
Delaware Art Museum, Gift of Willard S. Morse, 1925
Published in <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015021733699;view=1up;seq=658"><em>Harper's Weekly</em>, Vol. 24, November 13, 1880, 724.</a>
1880
Public domain
Graphite on gray-green paper, 8 1/4 × 11 9/16 in. (21 × 29.4 cm)
Socialist Party Suffrage for Women Campaign Fund
A drawing of a man and woman facing one another flanking a hand holding a torch in front of a globe. The text reads "Socialist Party" and "Suffrage for Women Campaign Fund."
John Sloan, American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951
Delaware Art Museum, Gift of Helen Farr Sloan, 2000
c. 1913
© Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Not for reproduction or publication.
The 1920's... The Migrants Arrive and Cast Their Ballots
People taking part in voting are depicted in a stylized, semi-abstract manner in bright red, blue, white, ocher, brown, and black hues.
Jacob Lawrence, American painter, 1917–2000
Delaware Art Museum, Gift of Lorillard, a Division of Loew's Theatres, Inc., 1975
Ives-Sillman Inc.
1975
© The Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Seven-color screen print, 32 × 24 7/8 in. (81.3 × 63.2 cm)
The Mean Thing
<em>Puck</em>, vol. 65, July 14, 1909. Hathi Trust, original from the University of Minnesota.
July 14, 1909
Votes for Women
Top image:
A group of finely-dressed women are depicted walking to the right. Each woman holds up a letter, spelling out the phrase "Votes for Women."
Middle image:
Met with opposition from two police officers at the right, the women turn back, their signs getting disorganized until the only letters held aloft spell "Frost."
Bottom image:
The women walk back towards the left in a single file line, their letters now reading "No Votes For Em." A woman is depicted at the right lowering her sign with the letter "W."
Leighton Budd, American illustrator, active early 20th century
Delaware Art Museum
<em>Puck</em>, September 22, 1909
1909
Public domain
Commercial relief process with hand-coloring, 11 × 7 15/16 in. (27.9 × 20.2 cm)
When Women Vote
A group of girls are depicted in style reminiscent of Charles Dana Gibson, standing in a shop trying on ornate hats. At left, an insert depicts women looking into a hat shop window where a sign reads "vote here."
Gordon Grant, American illustrator, 1875–1962
Delaware Art Museum, Gift of Joseph P. Fraczkowski, 1988
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951002801295r;view=1up;seq=230"><em>Puck</em>, Vol. 65, No. 1678, April 28, 1909</a>
1909
Public domain
Ink and gouache on illustration board, 16 × 22 1/4 in. (40.6 × 56.5 cm)