The Girl Behind the Counter: Elizabeth Sparhawk-Jones and the Modern Shop Girl

Abstract

A focused examination of the artist’s portrayals of the shop girl, alongside an understanding of what that role represented in the early twentieth century, offers a more complicated picture of the working woman and the association of middle-class consumers with her.

Keywords

• 5.1
• elizabeth carlson
• elizabeth sparkhawk-jones
• modernism
• twentieth-century art