How do Gilded Age representations of women present ideals of femininity at odds with their real lives? Preservation Society Research Fellow Priscilla Bright leads a tour that examines select artworks in The Elms to help answer this question.

Explore how idealized portraits of society women like Elizabeth Drexel Lehr reflected expectations placed upon them and learn about these women’s accomplishments outside the shadow of powerful men. Attendees will also consider how mythological women in art, from Diana the Huntress to Aphrodite, conveyed the personal virtues of Gilded Age women.