Many of his subjects were fashionable, bourgeois women, whom he depicted in an array of settings that reflected the many facets of modern life in the late 19th century. In brightly colored ...

As a result of the war, America gained hundreds of competent surgeons who would lay the foundations of modern surgical specialties ... of the emerging role of women in the hospital.

In a new publication, “Inventing the Modern,” and a companion exhibition, 14 women who shaped the institution ... “I think she wanted to be remembered by her pictures.” ...