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The Trailblazing Sisters Who Founded the Nation’s First Woman-Led Museum

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The Trailblazing Sisters Who Founded the Nation’s First Woman-Led Museum The Trailblazing Sisters Who Founded the Nation’s First Woman-Led Museum
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Image caption: The Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum has organized the exhibition, “Sarah & Eleanor Hewitt: Designing a Modern Museum,” focusing on the lives of its founders. Photo illustration by Emily Lankiewicz, images courtesy of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Article by Jane L. Levere. Smithsonian Magazine – April 8, 2022.

The two sisters were wealthy, witty, athletic and beautiful. Textiles were their passion and the first decorative art they collected. And with family friends like the financier J. P. Morgan, the pair, described once as “two little girls with pigtails,” led an extremely rarified existence. […]

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