Focusing on Home and Beyond: The Photographs of Chansonetta Stanley Emmons, 1897‐1937
April 30, 2015 - August 19, 2015
Biddeford Campus Art Gallery
Throughout the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Chansonetta Stanley Emmons (1858-1937) returned home to Kingfield, Maine, each summer to document the family homestead, rural life, traditional labor practices and the many pleasures of summer. Trained in drawing, painting, and as an art educator, Emmons gravitated toward photography when her twin brothers, F.E. and F.O. Stanley, […]
