Untitled (Woman)

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 bright blues, yellows, green, red, brown, and black with hand applied white ink depicting a seated female figure holding a bowl of flowers. The print is roughly divided into three sections, each with blocks of different colors and imagery. The seated woman is depicted at the bottom center. She is mostly black and white, with a yellow skirt and a pink block behind her head. There is a bowl of flowers sitting on the woman's lap. She is surrounded by blocks of blue, with deep red shapes. To her proper right is a yellow block, like a window. The center section is divided with a deep red line at the bottom. At left is a yellow and red shape resembling a cloche or birdcage with black shapes inside it. The rest of this section is primarily blue and orange.

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