socialites
(noun)
People of social prominence, considered to be influential figures
Examples of socialites in the following topics:
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American Painting: The Ashcan School
- These artists were not only depicting Fifth Avenue socialites, but also the lower class and richly textured immigrant cultures.
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Painting and Sculpture
- These artists were not only depicting the rich and promising Fifth Avenue socialites, but the lives of immigrants and working class, including alleys, tenements, and slums.
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Germany and the United States
- These artists not only depicted the rich and promising Fifth Avenue socialites, but the immigrants and working classes in richly textured ways.
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The Rise of Realism
- These artists not only depicted the rich and promising Fifth Avenue socialites, but also the culturally textured lives of the lower classes.
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Women and the War
- Greenhow, a socialite in Washington, D.C., when the war broke out, was able to leverage her position in political circles and friendships with important civic leaders to pass along key military information to the Confederates at the beginning of the war.