Lauren Kroiz just won a publication grant from the Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art for her forthcoming book Living Power: Women's Suffrage and Modern American Art (University of California Press, 2026).
Living Power explores the modernist aesthetics of the women’s suffrage movement in the United States. The book analyzes how artworks—including Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s design for soap trading cards, Adelaide Johnson’s marble portrait busts, Anne Brigman’s photographs in the California wilderness, and Meta Warrick Fuller’s sculptures of mothers and children—interrogated the unstable divide between subjecthood and objecthood at the heart of demands for political agency.
Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art
Congratulations Lauren.