Reddit mentions of Philadelphia Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections

A few ideas.

“In a major act of historical reconstruction, Wulf draws upon sources... in order to recreate the daily experiences of women.... With its substantial population of unmarried women, eighteenth-century Philadelphia was much like other early modern cities, but it became a distinctive proving ground for cultural debate and social experimentation involving those women. Arguing that unmarried women shaped the city as much as it shaped them, Wulf examines popular literary representations of marriage, the economic hardships faced by women, and the decisive impact of a newly masculine public culture in the late colonial period.”


https://www.amazon.com/Not-All-Wives-Colonial-Philadelphia/dp/0812219171/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1467301333&sr=1-1&keywords=Philadelphia+women



“This fully updated and beautifully redesigned handbook is the essential guide to the encyclopedic collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Divided into four sections—Asia, Europe, the Americas, and Contemporary—the handbook features more than 500 masterpieces from the museum’s world-renowned holdings, each handsomely illustrated in color and accompanied by a brief text written by the museum’s curators.”


https://www.amazon.com/Philadelphia-Museum-Art-Handbook-Collections/dp/0300207999/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1467301426&sr=1-2&keywords=art+in+philadelphia