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)
Women at the Polls in New Jersey in the Good Old Days
A group of elegant women at center-left are depicted casting their votes at a desk. The rest of the room is filled with male figures of different ages and social classes, who watch the women and speak among themselves.
Howard Pyle, American illustrator, 1853–1911
HathiTrust Digital Library, original from the University of Michigan
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015021733699;view=1up;seq=658"><em>Harper's Weekly Magazine</em>, vol. 24, November 30, 1880, p. 724</a>
1880
Public domain
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)
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)
And Yet She Asks for Her Rights!
Top image:
A woman in purple is depicted in front of a line of disgruntled men at a ticket window. At left, a man in a checkered suit is depicted in motion.
Bottom image:
A group of men are depicted attacking another man, who sits on the ground covered in bruises, his clothes torn. In the background, the male ticket seller looks out through his window with a shocked expression.
Louis Glackens, American illustrator and cartoonist, 1866–1933
Delaware Art Museum, Gift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1978
<a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015085551458;view=1up;seq=246"><em>Puck</em>, Vol. 71, No. 1835, May 1, 1912</a>
1912
Public domain
Commercial lithograph with hand-coloring, 14 5/16 × 11 1/4 in. (36.4 × 28.6 cm)
England's Daughters
In the foreground, a woman in a worker's uniform with her hair tucked into a cap carries a large basket on one shoulder. In the background are depictions of other female figures engaged in manual labor.
John Sloan, American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951
Delaware Art Museum, Bequest of Helen Farr Sloan, 2014
1915
© Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Not for reproduction or publication.
Crayon on paper, 16 5/16 × 10 3/8 in. (41.4 × 26.4 cm)
Women's Equality
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (left) and Lucretia Mott (right), two leaders in the 19th-century women's movement, are depicted with hands clasped in bright colors. At lower center, an extended hand reaches towards the women's joined hands.
Marisol, French artist, 1930–2016
Delaware Art Museum, Gift of Lorillard, a Division of Loew's Theatres, Inc., 1975
Styria Studio Inc.
1975
© Marisol. Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
15-color lithograph, 34 1/2 × 29 3/4 in. (87.6 × 75.6 cm)
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)
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)
When Women Vote. What Will Happen if the Polling Place is Located in a Millinery Shop.
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
HathiTrust Digital Library, original from the University of Minnesota
<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