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Artists Reimagining the Collection
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Untitled

1930s

Caroline Whiting Fellows

Associated Names

Caroline Whiting Fellows

Artist, American, 1905 - 1989

The image depicts a figure from the waist up in formal attire. The figure has both hands at the sides of its head. The face is stylized with large, smiling features made of paper cutouts, giving it a cartoonish appearance. The hair is a layered, dark paper cutout. The clothing consists of a dark suit jacket over a white shirt and a black bow tie. The background is a plain gradient from dark to light.

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Artwork overview

Medium

gelatin silver print
Credit Line

Gift of the Estate of Caroline Whiting Fellows
Dimensions

image/sheet: 19.3 × 18.3 cm (7 5/8 × 7 3/16 in.)
mount: 36.1 × 28.5 cm (14 3/16 × 11 1/4 in.)
Accession Number

2023.147.10

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Caroline Whiting Fellows, Crestone, CO; by inheritance to her niece, Isabell VanMerlin (Anna Belle O. Whiting), Dover, NH; gift to NGA, 2023.

Associated Names

VanMerlin, Isabell

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