Diana Schmertz

Declaration of Independence, 1776
laser cut watercolor painting, 21.5 x 14.5 inches ©2021

Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, 1789
laser cut ink paintings on paper, 19 x 14.5 inches ©2021

Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, 1789, close up

Declaration of the Rights of Women and the Citizen, 1791
laser cut watercolor painting, 21.5 x 14.5 inches ©2021

Declaration of The Rights of Women, 1791, close up

Reconstruction, 1862-1896
laser cut watercolor painting, 21.5 x 14.5 inches ©2021

Reconstruction, 1862-1896
Close up image of text from the 13th, 14th & 15th Amendments

Reconstruction, 1862-1896
Close up image of text from the 15th Amendment and SCOTUS Plessy vs. Ferguson, 1896

Women's Suffrage, 1848-1920
laser cut ink paintings on paper, 21.5 x 29 inches ©2021

Women's Suffrage, 1848-1920
Close up of text, Declaration of Sentiments from the Seneca Falls Convention, 1848.

Women's Suffrage, 1848-1920
Close up of text, Ain’t I a Woman, speech by Sojourner Truth at Seneca Falls, 1848

Women's Suffrage, 1848-1920
Close up of text from Wyoming’s 1869 constitutional amendment making it the first state to allow women the right to vote and Fredrick Douglass’s speech, Women’s Right to Vote, 1888.

Women's Suffrage, 1848-1920
Close up of text from Carrie Chapman Catt’s address to congress for Women’s Suffrage, 1917.

Women's Suffrage, 1848-1920
Close up of text, The 19th Amendment, 1920

Voting Rights Act, 1965
laser cut watercolor painting, 21.5 x 60 inches, (4 panels 21.5 x 14.5 inches each) ©2021

Voting Rights Act, 1965, closeup from panel 1

Equal Rights Amendment, Pending
laser cut watercolor paintings, 24x16 inches ©2019

Equal Rights Amendment, Pending, closeup
laser cut watercolor paintings, 24x16 inches ©2019

Equal Rights Amendment II, Pending
laser cut watercolor paintings, 24x16 inches ©2019