Description
Artwork Size: 17×22, Medium: Watercolor, Location Depicted in Artwork: AR, Artist Statement: My painting portrays Hattie Ophelia Wyatt Caraway, who was the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate. She was also the the first woman to preside over the Senate, to chair a Senate committee, and to preside over a Senate hearing. Serving from 1931 to 1945, Caraway was instrumental in securing Camp Robinson, Fort Chaffee, five air bases, defense ordinance plants, and aluminum factories, in Arkansas during World War II. Caraway also triumphed the Equal Nationality Treaty of 1934, which extended numerous nationality rights to women, which had been previously limited to men. In 1943, she become the first woman in the Senate to co-sponsor the proposed Equal Rights Amendment.
