Portrait of a Lady
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Object Details
- Date
- 1947
- Artist
- Laura Wheeler Waring, born Hartford, CT 1887-died Philadelphia, PA 1948
- Sitter
- Alma Thomas
- Topic
- African American
- Occupation\art\painter
- Portrait female\waist length
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- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Vincent Melzac
- Data Source
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Object number
- 1977.121
- Type
- Painting
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 30 x 25 1/8 in. (76.1 x 63.8 cm)
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- saam_1977.121