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Joseph Stella, Self-Portrait, c. 1929, colored pencil, watercolor over wax resist, metalpoint, and graphite on prepared wove paper, New Century Fund, 1997.26.1

Self-Portrait

Joseph Stella · c. 1929 · colored pencil, watercolor over wax resist, metalpoint, and graphite on prepared wove paper ·  Accession ID  1997.26.1

Joseph Cornell, Caravaggio Prince, Medici Slot Machine Variant, c. 1950, construction and collage, Corcoran Collection (Gift of the Friends of the Corcoran Gallery of Art), 2015.19.3915

Caravaggio Prince, Medici Slot Machine Variant

Joseph Cornell · c. 1950 · construction and collage ·  Accession ID  2015.19.3915

Painted with small areas of mostly flat color, this horizontal painting shows three brown-skinned people in the room of a home with pale gray walls and wood floors. To our right, a woman wears slate-gray skirt, a white apron and shawl, and a red headscarf with black and white polka dots. She sits in a black wooden chair facing our right in profile, smoking a pipe. A steaming kettle and bright green coffee pot sit on a black wood stove behind and to the right of the woman, with firewood stacked to the right. A clock or timer and an oil lamp sit on a red shelf above the stove and the woman’s head. Beneath her feet is one of three rectangular area rugs with a pattern of green, black, white, and red stripes. A window at the center of the back wall of the room is mostly covered by a dark green curtain. The panes along the bottom are black and lined with white, suggesting snow or frost. A bucket and pewter-colored, shallow bowl sit on a bench on the second striped rug under the window. To our left, a small person standing on the third patterned rug wears short black pants, stockings, and suspenders over a white shirt. That person turns away from us and rests elbows near a lit candle on a table with a red and gray checkered tablecloth. The third person, possibly a young girl, sits on a blanket or a fourth rug patterned with yellow, red, black, and green triangles. That young girl wears a gray dress and black shoes. She cradles a baby doll, and a white dog, perhaps a stuffed animal, sits next to her. A few cracks in the wall near the window expose horizontal bands, perhaps narrow wooden boards under damaged plaster. The artist signed the work with black letters in the lower right corner: “H. PiPPiN.”
Horace Pippin, School Studies, 1944, oil on canvas, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Meyer P. Potamkin, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1991.42.1

School Studies

Horace Pippin · 1944 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1991.42.1

Abraham Walkowitz, Head of a Woman, 1908, pen and black ink on wove paper, Corcoran Collection (Gift of A.C.A. Heritage Gallery), 2015.19.1051

Head of a Woman

Abraham Walkowitz · 1908 · pen and black ink on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2015.19.1051

Faith Ringgold, The American People Series #18: The Flag is Bleeding, 1967, oil on canvas, Gift of Glenstone Foundation and Patrons’ Permanent Fund, 2021.28.1

The American People Series #18: The Flag is Bleeding

Faith Ringgold · 1967 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2021.28.1

Abraham Walkowitz, Head of a Woman, 1908, pen and black ink on wove paper, Corcoran Collection (Gift of A.C.A. Heritage Gallery), 2015.19.1052

Head of a Woman

Abraham Walkowitz · 1908 · pen and black ink on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2015.19.1052