Adelaide Johnson (1859-1955)
Memorial to the Pioneers of Women's Suffrage, 1921
marble
Collection of the United States Capitol
Artist Details
Sarah
Adeline
Johnson
born Sarah Adeline Johnson
Johnson
Alexander Frederick Jenkins Johnson(he took her surname; 1896-1908)
n/a
n/a
September 26, 1859
Plymouth, Illinois
November 10, 1955
Washington, D.C.
1878-?: Chicago, Illinois
1884-1886: Rome, Italy
1886-?: New York, New York
1878-?: Chicago, Illinois (Central Music Hall Building);
Rome, Italy
New York, New York
Washington, D.C.
1884-1909: Rome, Italy
New York, New York
Chicago, Illinois
London, England
Carrara, Italy
1946: 230 Maryland Ave., Washington, D.C.
Sculptor
1875-1878: St. Louis School of Design
1883: Dresden
Rome 1884; studied with Guilio Monteverde
1884-1895: studied with Fabio Altini
Germany, Italy
Array
1893: World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois: Susan B. Anthony; Lucretia Mott; Elizabeth Cady Stanton; Caroline B. Winslow
Chicago History Museum, Chicago, Illinois
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
National Woman’s Party, Washington, D.C. [ceased operation in 2020]
Sewall-Belmont Museum and Archives, Washington, D.C. (busts of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Lucretia Mott)
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
US Capitol Building
: “Adelaide Johnson, Sculptor, Dies: Washington Suffragist was 108,” New York Times, November 11, 1955.
Bailey, Brooke. “Adelaide Johnson,” in The Remarkable Lives of 100 Women Artists. Holbrook, MA: Bob Adams, 1994.
Burton, Shirley J. Adelaide Johnson: To Make Immortal Their Adventurous Will. Macomb: Western Illinois University, 1986.
“Gossip Among the Studios and Galleries,” Chicago Daily Tribune, March 18, 1883.
Henderson, Ann Lyman. “Adelaide Johnson: Issue of Professionalism for a Woman Artist.” Ph.D. dissertation, George Washington University, 1981.
Kort, Carol and Liz Sonneborn. A to Z of American Women in the VIsual Arts, Infobase Publishing, 2014, pp. 109-111.
Marter, Joan M. ed. The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art, vol. 1. Oxford University Press, 2011.
Mayo, Edith. “Adelaide Johnson,” in Notable American Women. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1971.
Prieto, Laura R. At Home in the Studio: The Professionalization of Women Artists in America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001.
Rubinstein, Charlotte Streifer. American Women Sculptors. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1990.
Sicherman, Barbara and Carol Hurd Green eds. Notable American Women: The Modern Period: A Biographical Dictionary. Harvard University Press, 1980, pp. 380-1.
Smith, Jean B. Cook. “Life in Marble—Speech in Silence: Adelaide Johnson and Her Work,” New American Woman. June 1917.
Weber, Sandra. The Woman Suffrage Statue. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc., 2016
1877: 1st and 2nd place, Missouri State Exposition, Sedalia, Missouri
Adelaide Johnson Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.