{"id":72,"date":"2019-10-15T04:58:55","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T04:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/katherinemanthorne.com\/historian_art_women\/?post_type=blog&p=72"},"modified":"2020-03-24T18:53:34","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T18:53:34","slug":"first-blog","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/katherinemanthorne.com\/historian_art_women\/blog\/first-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW BOOK: RESTLESS ENTERPRISE: THE LIFE AND ART OF ELIZA PRATT GREATOREX"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nRestless Enterprise: The Life and Art of Eliza Pratt Greatorex<\/em>. Katherine Manthorne. University of California Press. 2020. <\/p>\n

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Consulting primary documents, press clippings and public sources, together with travel and fieldwork, Katherine Manthorne has assembled the\u00a0first biography of this remarkable Irish-American feminist artist. Once ranked among the greatest America women in history, Greatorex is all but forgotten today. Manthorne’s book will\u00a0be published later this year by University of California Press.<\/p>\n

Eliza Pratt Greatorex (1819-1897) was raised in County Donegal, Ireland, the daughter of a Methodist circuit preacher. She moved to New York, to become a leader in the American women’s movement. Described in the press as the ‘first artist of her sex’, Eliza documented the demolition of old New York, to make way for a new city rising from the rubble. As a cultural leader, she organized the New York women artists exhibiting in the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. A powerhouse of art-making, Greatorex and her two daughters traveled to Munich, Paris, Britain, Ireland, Morocco and Colorado. Despite Gilded-Age repression, Eliza soldiered on as a leader in the plein-air etching movement. The restless, peripatetic Eliza finally retired to Moret-sur-Loin near Fonatinebleau. Active until her death in Paris in 1897, Eliza remained a celebrity twenty years after the pinnacle of her career. Today her name has been but forgotten, until now. A remarkable Irishwoman is about to step out of the shadows, to share a yet untold story about women, art and enterprise in 19th-century America.<\/p>\n

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Eliza Pratt Greatorex (1819-1897).”Joseph Chaudlait House on Bloomingdale Road”, Oil on canvas: 17 x 33 in. Collection Ronald & Carole Berg<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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