Name: Beckie Saar Leone
Location: Florida, USA
Title: “Suffragette”
Size: 11″ x 14″ x 7.5”
Medium: Acrylic on stretched canvas
Link: http://beckieleone.blogspot.com
From Beckie:
Suffrage: The right or privilege of voting.
“Carry out the republican principle of universal suffrage, or strike it from your banners and substitute ‘Freedom and Power to one half of society, and Submission and Slavery to the other.”
- Ernestine Rose
4 responses so far ↓
1 Vikki // Jul 18, 2009 at 12:13 pm
Your painting gave me such a chuckle. I love the words across her back. So many young women, 20’2-30′s, don’t realize we ‘girls’ havent had the right to vote for that long. By history’s marks and time clock, we’re newbies to American Democratic system.
Great choice for this theme and nicely rendered.
2 Kimberley // Jul 18, 2009 at 5:57 pm
Playful and fun while remembering an exciting and difficult time for women in our country….I yike it. :0)
3 Marian Fannon Christian // Jul 19, 2009 at 2:50 am
Love the hunorous angle you took with the subject. I wanted to delete the “s” and say Vote For Women!
4 Heather // Jul 21, 2009 at 5:08 am
So perfect! I love that you used her back…its a great “pun” too…and the look on her face is so…like don’t tread on me!
Wonderful work as always but this is one of my favorites!
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