Nurse Ora Bouie and a Doctor at the Tufts-Delta Health Clinic, Mount Bayou, Mississippi

1968

Doris Derby

Associated Names
Doris A. Derby

Artist, American, 1939 - 2022

The image shows a woman in a nursing outfit, captured from the waist up. She is standing slightly sideways and facing to the right, with her head tilted slightly downward. Her facial features are prominent, with a calm expression and wavy short hair, partially covered by a nurse's cap. She is dressed in a traditional white nurse's uniform, buttoned up and fitting closely to her body. She holds a pen or a similar object in her right hand. Behind her is a man wearing a white coat, sitting on a medical examination table, with another person partially visible, sitting with crossed legs. The background depicts a clinical setting with light-colored walls and what appears to be a medical or storage cabinet to the left of the frame.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of David Knaus

  • Dimensions

    image: 32.7 × 21.9 cm (12 7/8 × 8 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 35.2 × 28 cm (13 7/8 × 11 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2022.149.6

  • Copyright

    © Doris A. Derby


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Doris Derby, Atlanta, GA; David Knaus, Palm Springs, CA; gift to NGA, 2022.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, artist's signature stamped lower right in black ink: Doris A. Derby / —LIFETIME PRINT—; by unknown hand, bottom right in graphite: 2/3


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