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The painting shows a tired, faceless Black woman sitting on the edge of her bed about start her workday. The artist first conceived of the painting while getting ready to catch a bus to work on a cold winter morning. [9] As of 2011, Blue Monday was the most mass-produced and popular painting of the artist. [10]
The painting was initially purchased by Thomas B. Clarke, a private collector from New York. It changed hands again when Clarke sold his collection in 1899. It was then acquired by William T. Evans, who donated it to the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., where it was displayed under the title The Visit of the Mistress. [3]
Lady Trying on a Hat (or The Black Hat) oil on canvas: 1904: Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI: 40.3 in x 32 in (102.4 cm x 81.3 cm) A seated woman holding a black hat slightly above her head. SIRIS Collection Number 47480077 [3] Portrait of a Model-Mary Sullivan: oil pastel on paper: 1904: Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Black Woman with Peonies by Frédéric Bazille (1870) located at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. Black Woman with Peonies also known as Négresse aux pivoines, Young Woman with Peonies, or Negress with Peonies, is a pair of paintings created by the French Impressionist painter Frédéric Bazille in the spring of 1870.
The painting depicts a watch meeting or vigil in the dark interior of a wood cabin, with a group of enslaved black men, women and children are covertly gathered on December 31, 1862, around a pulpit made from U.S. Sanitary Commission crates. An older black man stands with a book and a large pocket watch with an anchor at the end of its chain, a ...
I Am Half-Sick of Shadows, Said the Lady of Shalott is a painting by John William Waterhouse completed in 1915. [1] It is the third painting by Waterhouse that depicts a scene from the Tennyson poem, "The Lady of Shalott". The title of the painting is a quotation from the last two lines in the fourth and final verse of the second part of ...
It depicts two women in a bed, gazing at each other. The white sheets of the bed contrast with a red bedspread and with the headboard and wall behind. The disembodied heads of the women face each other, their bodies concealed beneath mountains of bedclothes. The painting is suffused by a warm glow, perhaps the rosy morning light, or a gas lamp.
Allegorical Painting of Two Ladies. Allegorical Painting of Two Ladies, English School is a 17th-century allegorical painting by an unknown artist, and dated from the 1650s. For its period, the painting is considered unusual in its depiction of a black woman and a white woman sitting side by side. [1]