John Biggers
Untitled (Washerwoman)

Untitled (Washerwoman)

© John T. Biggers Estate / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY, Estate Represented by Michael Rosenfeld Gallery

Untitled (Washerwoman)
Untitled (Washerwoman)
ArtistAmerican, 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 Fund
Object number2020.347
Not on view

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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)
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Signed and dated lower right: Biggers ’45
N.A.
Catalogue raisonnéN.A.

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