Girl, Birds and Fountain

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A color linocut in orange and black depicting a girl surrounded by birds. The girl is in the center of the print, depicted from the shoulders up in three-quarters profile. A bird is flying in front of the girl, with two more birds flying above her head in the top left corner of the image. Also depicted is a tiered fountain, at right, and a tree, at left. There are wavy lines, possibly representing water, along the bottom edge of the image. The features of the print are articulated in black, with shading in orange and small areas of white highlight. The title of the print [Girl (sic) Birds and Fountain] is written in pencil at the bottom left corner with [a/p] written at the center. The print is signed [James L Wells] at the bottom right corner in pencil.

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