Harlem Beauty

1930

Werner Drewes

Artist, American, 1899 - 1985

Printed with black ink against eggshell-white paper, the head and neck of a person facing our right in profile fills this vertical woodcut. The person has closely-cropped black hair, a thin neck, and high cheekbones. The eye we can see under an arched brow seems to look straight ahead, and the person has a straight nose, and the lips are closed. The texture and woodgrain of the woodblock surface is visible in the black, printed areas. The artist signed and dated the lower right corner, under the printed image, in graphite: "W. DREWES 1930." A graphite inscription in the lower left reads, "N. 7 1-XXX HARLEM BEAUTY."
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    woodcut in black

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Accession

    1974.84.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Rose 1984, no. III.42

Artwork history & notes

Bibliography

1984

  • Rose, Ingrid. Werner Drewes: A Catalogue Raisonné of His Prints. Munich and New York: Verlag Kunstgalerie Esslingen, 1984, p. 295, no. III.42.

Wikidata ID

Q65578751

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