Adelaide Johnson (1859–1955) was an American sculptor whose work is displayed in the U.S. Capitol and a feminist who was devoted to the cause of equality of women. She was known as the "sculptor of the women's movement".
13-545: Portrait Monument is a 1920 marble sculpture by Adelaide Johnson , installed in the U.S. Capitol 's rotunda , in Washington, D.C. The artwork was dedicated in 1921 and features portrait busts of Elizabeth Cady Stanton , Susan B. Anthony , and Lucretia Mott . This article about a sculpture in the United States is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Adelaide Johnson Born Sarah Adeline Johnson to
26-550: A farm family of modest means in Plymouth, Illinois , she attended rural school and then took classes at the St. Louis School of Design. In 1878, she changed from Sarah Adeline to Adelaide, a name she thought was more dramatic. She moved to Chicago and supported herself with her art. In January 1882, hurrying to get to her studio, she slipped and fell twenty feet down the well of an unguarded elevator shaft. Badly hurt, she sued for compensation and
39-700: A master's degree at the University of Toronto . She completed her Ph.D. in 1960, at Ohio State University , at the age of 66, with a dissertation titled "Performance of Subjects aged Two to Four on Nonverbal Tasks Presented in Pantomime". Johnson was a teacher in Ohio and worked at her father's bank in Texas as a young woman. From 1929 to 1948, she was a special education teacher and school psychologist in Shorewood, Wisconsin . Smith
52-400: A studio-museum commemorating suffragists and other women's campaigners. She moved in with friends in 1947 and appeared on TV quiz programs trying to win money to buy back her home. Her flamboyant nature led her to lie about her age through her life. She celebrated her 100th birthday at the age of 88, realizing that it made good publicity. Upon her death, her age was reported to be 108, though she
65-622: The John Tracy Clinic in Los Angeles from 1948 to 1977, working with the parents of deaf children to improve communication and other skills. Alathena Johnson was born in Chicago and raised in Evanston, Illinois , the daughter of Charles Lincoln Johnson and Helen Sylvester Woods Johnson. Sculptor and suffragist Adelaide Johnson was her aunt. She graduated from Wellesley College in 1915, and earned
78-461: The 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, Illinois. The high point of her professional career was to complete a monument in Washington D.C. in honor of the women's suffrage movement. Alva Belmont helped to secure funding for the piece, Portrait Monument to Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony , which was unveiled in 1921. This piece was originally kept on display in
91-407: The 1930s, and financial problems beset her. She relied on others for financial support and was often unwilling to sell her sculptures because she felt the prices offered did not recognize her work. Faced with eviction for failure to pay taxes, in 1939 she invited the press to witness her mutilating her own sculptures as a protest against her circumstances, and against the failure to realize her dream of
104-689: The clinic's oralism -based work. She was an adjunct assistant professor in the psychology department at the University of Southern California . In 1972, Smith received the first Distinguished Alumna Award from the Los Angeles chapter of the Wellesley College Club. She was a life member of the American Psychological Association . Johnson married businessman William Bush Smith in 1918; they had two daughters, and divorced in 1933. In 1944, one of her daughters, also named Alathena, survived polio with paraplegia. In 1963, Smith
117-579: The crypt of the US Capitol, but was moved to its current location and more prominently displayed in the rotunda in 1997. In 1896 she married Frederick Jenkins, a British businessman and fellow vegetarian who was eleven years younger than she. He took her family name of Johnson as "the tribute love pays to genius." They were wed by a woman minister, and her bridesmaids were the busts she had sculpted of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. The marriage ended after twelve years. Her career declined after
130-558: Was "only" 96. She is buried in Washington, D.C. at Congressional Cemetery . Johnson became a vegetarian in her youth. She was vegetarian because she believed it was morally wrong to take the life of any living creature. In 1893, Johnson was a speaker at the third International Vegetarian Congress in Chicago . Johnson did not embrace a particular religion but took interest in Christian Science , spiritualism and theosophy . She
143-487: Was a member of the National Spiritualist Association of Churches . Her niece, Alathena Johnson Smith , became a noted child psychologist. [REDACTED] Media related to Adelaide Johnson at Wikimedia Commons Alathena Johnson Smith Helen Alathena Parkman Johnson Smith (February 8, 1894 – November 12, 1982) was an American child psychologist. She was an educator and chief psychologist at
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#1732852246408156-460: Was an educator at the John Tracy Clinic in Los Angeles from 1948 to 1977, and rose to be the clinic's chief psychologist. "When they ask me if I teach deaf children, I always say, 'No, I teach their parents'", she explained in 1969. She taught in the clinic's correspondence courses and summer programs, and traveled nationally and internationally giving lectures and holding workshops based on
169-554: Was awarded the sum of $ 15,000. This injury and award gave her the financial freedom to travel to Europe to study painting and sculpture, an opportunity she would never have had without the accident. She took the opportunity to study in Dresden and Rome , studying with Giulio Monteverde in Rome where she kept a studio until 1920. Johnson exhibited her work, The Portrait Monument and a bust of Caroline B. Winslow at The Woman's Building at
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