Colored Woman Ironing

Work on Paper

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DePaul Art Museum

Name/Title

Colored Woman Ironing

Entry/Object ID

2013.180

Description

African American woman standing at a windown looking into a yard with her back to the viewer in a living room, done in thick, sketchy lines

Artwork Details

Medium

Charcoal on paper

Acquisition

Notes

Collection of DePaul Art Museum, gift of Bernard Friedman

Made/Created

Artist

Henry, Nancy

Date made

1926

Ethnography

Notes

North America United States

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Transcription

graphite in BR of R

Notes

Inscription Type: "N. Henry/1926"

Transcription

graphite along B edge of R

Notes

Inscription Type: "Colored Woman Ironing"

Transcription

graphite in center of verso

Notes

Inscription Type: "Old Aunt Jane ironing at home/summer of 1926"

Lexicon

Legacy Lexicon

Class

WORKS ON PAPER

Dimensions

Dimension Description

sheet

Width

10-1/4 in

Length

12-3/4 in