Young woman in the doorway of her room at a boardinghouse, Washington, DC

1943

Esther Bubley

Associated Names
Esther Bubley

Artist, American, 1921 - 1998

The image depicts the upper half of a woman seated and leaning slightly forward. She has high cheekbones, groomed eyebrows, and dark eyes. Her hair is styled in a vintage manner with smooth waves and rolled bangs. She is wearing a light-colored blouse with a pleated front. The room is cluttered with items like a dresser with various objects, a bed with a leaf-patterned blanket, and a partially open door leading to another room with a drying rack filled with clothes. A tall mirror is against the wall, reflecting part of the room.
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Artwork overview


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Kent and Marcia Minichiello, Washington, DC; gift to NGA, 2019.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2021

  • The New Woman Behind the Camera, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2021 - 2022, no. 86.

Bibliography

1987

  • Fisher, Andrea._ Let Us Now Praise Famous Women: Women Photographers for the US Government 1935 to 1944: : Esther Bubley, Marjory Collins, Pauline Ehrlich, Dorothea Lange, Martha McMillan Roberts, Marion Post Wolcott, Ann Rosener, Louise Rosskam_. London, 1987: 154.

Inscriptions

on verso, signed by artist, across bottom in graphite: Esther Bubley / A Government worker in her room in a Washington boarding house.; by unknown hand, upper left in graphite: 21; bottom right: INVENTORY # 8.1


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