Museum Studies Theses
Abstract
My thesis focuses on Mary Shepard Greene Blumenschein and Ernest L. Blumenschein, married artists born in the late 1860s. Ernest Blumenschein was an important regional artist and member of the Taos Society of Artists (TSA). Paintings by Blumenschein and other TSA members promoted tourism in the Southwestern United States through annual exhibitions and their use in advertising the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway (AT&SF). Mary Greene Blumenschein was an award-winning painter and illustrator whose work focused on images of women at the beginning of the twentieth century, however, she is now a secondary and obscure figure in art history. I compare Mary and Ernest’s lived experience with how they are represented at the E.L. Blumenschein House and Museum in Taos, New Mexico to examine how museums use the historical paradigms of domestic ideology and separate gendered spheres to amplify men’s significance and diminish women’s accomplishments and experiences
Language
English
Document Type
Thesis
Level of Degree
Masters
Department Name
Museum Studies
First Committee Member
Dr. Loa Traxler
Second Committee Member
Dr. Katherine Massoth
Third Committee Member
Dr. Klinton Burgio-Ericson
Keywords
Taos, New Mexico, Decolonial, Women's Studies, Art History, Domesticity
Recommended Citation
Botwick, Marcy J.. "The Dance of Domesticity: How gender constructs obscure lived experience at museums." (2022). https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/msst_etds/4
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American Art and Architecture Commons, History of Gender Commons, Museum Studies Commons, United States History Commons, Women's History Commons
