Boston Women’s Memorial
2003
bronze
75” x 33” x 21”
“So rapid have been the changes, that the mind, though fleet in its progress, has been outstripped by them; and we are left like statues, gazing at what we can neither fathom nor comprehend.”
Letter to Mercy Otis Warren, 1807
Boston Women’s Memorial
2003
bronze
75” x 33” x 21”
Adams, presidential advisor and correspondent, represents old age and Contemplation. She is looking back over her life’s work and influence and perhaps challenging us to do the same.
Boston Women’s Memorial
2003
bronze
75” x 33” x 21”
“Remember that all men would be tyrants if they could. If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies we are determined to foment a Rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound be any Laws in which we have no voice, or Representation.”
Letter to John Adams, Mar. 31, 1776
Boston Women’s Memorial
2003
bronze
59” x 50” x 32
Wheatley, a slave in colonial Boston, was our first published African-American poet. Her pose is derived from the the only extant image of her, a profile portrait engraved for the frontispiece of her book of poetry.
