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Girl with Pomegranates
Laura Wheeler WaringWW-1938-524395
Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace and the Ford Foundation Gifts, Florence and Herbert Irving Acquisitions Fund, and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 2024
Catalogue
- Year
- 1938
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 36 1/4 × 30 3/16 × 3/4 in. (92.1 × 76.7 × 1.9 cm)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Artist
- Laura Wheeler Waring
Artist
Laura Wheeler Waring
Painting
Laura Wheeler Waring was an American artist and educator, most renowned for her realistic portraits, landscapes, still-life, and well-known African American portraitures she made during the Harlem Renaissance. She was one of the few African American artists in France, a turning point of her career and profession where she attained widespread attention, exhibited in Paris, won awards, and spent the next 30 years teaching art at Cheyney University in Pennsylvania.
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- Laura Wheeler Waring
- Year
- 1938
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 36 1/4 × 30 3/16 × 3/4 in. (92.1 × 76.7 × 1.9 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1938-524395
Source
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified