Tulips

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

A framed color oil painting titled “Tulips” by Loïs Mailou Jones. The colorful painting depicts a clear, transparent vase with a handle on the right, filled with seven different color tulips (red, lilac, orange, pink, and white). On the left is a rectangular yellow-brown woven basket. A white bag or cloth is below the basket. The objects are all on a dark brown table. The background is a dull, mint color. The artist signed, dated, and titled the painting in the front, lower right corner [Lois M. / Jones © / Paris '38] and on the back on the upper stretcher [by Lois Mailou Jones’ ‘TULIPS’ (oil) 1938].

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