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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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