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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
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)
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
N.A.
Catalogue raisonnéN.A.

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