Christiana Carteaux Bannister
2 color letterpress and lithograph print, 11 in x 17 in. Signed and numbered on back.
2024 Art Exhibit at AS220, Providence Public Library and Providence City Hall Galleries.
For a small city in the smallest state, Rhode Island has produced outsized Black artists in a variety of genres. In the 19th century, artists such as Sissieretta Jones, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, and Christiana Cartreaux Bannister brought music, visual art, and style to the city.
2 color letterpress and lithograph print, 11 in x 17 in. Signed and numbered on back.
2024 Art Exhibit at AS220, Providence Public Library and Providence City Hall Galleries.
For a small city in the smallest state, Rhode Island has produced outsized Black artists in a variety of genres. In the 19th century, artists such as Sissieretta Jones, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, and Christiana Cartreaux Bannister brought music, visual art, and style to the city.
2 color letterpress and lithograph print, 11 in x 17 in. Signed and numbered on back.
2024 Art Exhibit at AS220, Providence Public Library and Providence City Hall Galleries.
For a small city in the smallest state, Rhode Island has produced outsized Black artists in a variety of genres. In the 19th century, artists such as Sissieretta Jones, Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, and Christiana Cartreaux Bannister brought music, visual art, and style to the city.
CHRISTIANA CARTEAUX BANNISTER
(née Babcock; 1819 – 1902)
Christiana Carteaux Bannister was an American business entrepreneur, hairdresser, and abolitionist in New England. She was known professionally as “Madame Carteaux.” Christiana was married to successful artist Edward Mitchell Bannister, who she supported financially during the early stages of his career. While Christiana's legacy has been overlooked in the past, coverage of her work in popular sources during the late 2010s has brought new attention to her success and political efforts. In Providence, she founded the Home for Aged Colored Women when she learned about the struggles of African American women who worked as domestics but were too old to work and often became homeless.