Led entirely by women, the American Female Moral Reform Society gave material aid to those in need and pushed for men to be ...

The City of Light shone like a beacon for many ... However, as this exhibition makes clear, most of the late-19th-century American painters in Paris were conformists, not visionaries.

They were mostly the descendants of Puritans, having made their fortunes as American ... the middle of the nineteenth century, the position of the wealthy and elite in every city was threatened.