The formal education of women artists in the United States has taken quite a long journey. It wasn't until the nineteenth century that the workings of a recognized education for these women finally appeared. Two of the most famous and elite schools of art that accepted, and still accept, women pupils are the Philadelphia School of Design for Women and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (the PAFA). Up until the early nineteenth century, women were mostly taught what is now called a "fashionable education- (Philadelphia School of Design for Women 5). Their mothers raised them to be p...

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