Ellen Emmet Rand (1875-1941) was one of the most important and prolific
portraitists in the United States in the first decades of the twentieth
century. She negotiated her career, reputation, family, and finances in
modern and commercially savvy ways-revealing the complex negotiations
needed to balance these competing pressures. Engaging with newly
available archival documents and featuring scholars with radically
different approaches to visual culture, this edited collection not only
seeks to interrogate the meaning of Rand's portraits and her career, but
indeed to rethink gender, art, race, business, and modernism in the
twentieth century.