Votes for Women

Designer unknown
Votes for Women: Empire State, 1915
Print on crepe paper
20 3/8 x 17 3/4" (51.8 x 44.8 cm)


Going through the drawers today, I was reunited with this incredible poster from 1915. This is the earliest of a number of twentieth-century works in the collection from the United States and abroad that focus on women’s rights, work, voting power, and role in the military. A few more are highlighted below.

Merrill
914-967-8200
mcbcollect@mindspring.com

Otis Shepard (American)
Join the WAAC (Women’s Army Auxiliary Core), c. 1943
Lithograph on paper
18 3/8 x 11 1/4” (46.7 x 28.6 cm)

Jeannie Friedman (American)
Women unite!, 1970
Silkscreen on paper
26 x 22 1/2" (66 x 57.1 cm)

Designer unknown
International Women’s Day, 1980
Lithograph on paper
22 7/8 x 18 3/8" (58.1 x 46.7 cm)