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Celebrating American art and artists
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Untitled (Woman with hands over face in field)

1950s

American 20th Century

Associated Names

American 20th Century

Artist

The image shows a woman standing outdoors. She is facing the camera with her hands covering her face. She has short, neatly styled hair, and is wearing a sleeveless white blouse with a bracelet on her left wrist and a ring on her left hand. In the background, there is an open field leading to a line of trees in the distance.

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Artwork overview

Medium

gelatin silver print
Credit Line

Robert B. Menschel and the Vital Projects Fund
Dimensions

image: 7.8 x 11.3 cm (3 1/16 x 4 7/16 in.)
sheet: 9.1 x 12.8 cm (3 9/16 x 5 1/16 in.)
Accession Number

2008.77.4

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Robert E. Jackson, Seattle; NGA purchase, 2008.

Associated Names

National Gallery of Art

Exhibition History

2007

The Art of the American Snapshot, 1888-1978: From the Collection of Robert E. Jackson, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, 2007 - 2008, no. 155.

2017

Posing for the Camera: Gifts from Robert B. Menschel, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2017 - 2018, unnumbered catalogue.

Inscriptions

on verso, by unknown hand, upper left in graphite: 25-; by Robert Jackson, upper center in graphite: 22

Wikidata ID

Q64144141

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