Combing Her Hair | Harvard Art Museums

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2011.54
People: Clementine Hunter, American (Natchitoches, LA 1887 - 1988 Natchitoches, LA)
Title: Combing Her Hair
Classification: Paintings
Work Type: painting
Date: 1945
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/337440

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Opaque watercolor on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

30.5 x 38.1 cm (12 x 15 in.)
framed: 43 x 51.1 cm (16 15/16 x 20 1/8 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

Signed: u.r.: CH
(not assigned): Nothing on verso
label: removed from backing board: HHudson River Picture Frames, Inc. / 107 West 86th Street, NYC / Tel. 873-2098

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Joe Henry (?); [Gasperi Folk Art Gallery, New Orleans, LA], sold; to Didi and David Barrett, (1984/85-2011), gift; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2011.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Collection of Didi & David Barrett ‘71
Accession Year: 2011
Object Number: 2011.54
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

A Time to Reap: Late-Blooming Folk Artists, Museum of American Folk Art, 01/01/1985 - 01/01/1985; Seton Hall Universtiy, South Orange, NJ, 01/01/1985 - 01/01/1985
Clementine Hunter, Allen House, Monmouth County Historical Society, Shrewsbury, NJ, 12/14/1985 - 02/28/1986
Clementine Hunter, Fine Arts Museum of the South, Mobile, AL, 01/01/1987

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