Untitled (Washerwoman)

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Artist John Biggers (American, 1924–2001)American, 1924–2001

CultureAmerican

Titles

Untitled (Washerwoman)

Date1945

MediumOil on panel

DimensionsPanel: 28 1/2 × 23 1/4 in. (72.4 × 59.1 cm)
Frame: 30 3/4 × 25 3/4 × 1 5/8 in. (78.1 × 65.4 × 4.1 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Caroline Wiess Law Accessions Endowment

Object number2020.347

Not on view

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Department

Modern and Contemporary Art

Object Type

PAINTING

ProvenanceThe artist; Hazel Hale Biggers, the artist’s wife; the Estate of Hazel Hales Biggers, Fayetteville, North Carolina; purchased by MFAH, 2020.
Exhibition History"Afro-Atlantic Histories," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 24, 2021–January 17, 2022; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 11, 2022–September 10, 2023; Dallas Museum of Art, October 22, 2023–February 11, 2024. (OL.1505)
Published References While closely related works from the 1940s have been published widely, this painting does not seem to have been published. Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Signed and dated lower right: Biggers ’45

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Catalogue raisonnéN.A.

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