Object number1996.21.6
Double Portrait
Date1975
Artist
Inez Nathaniel Walker
(American, 1907 - 1990)
CultureAmerican
MediumGraphite pencil and colored pencil on paper
DimensionsImage: 14 x 17 in. (35.6 x 43.2 cm)
Credit LineGift from the collection of Pat O’Brien Parsons, class of 1951
On View
Not on viewPeriod20th c
Classification(s)
SignedOn recto, signed lower left edge in pencil: Inez Walker
InscribedOn verso, by unidentified hand, upper right edge in pencil: PPINW960323 V; upper left: J-11 / Two Women
ProvenancePatricia Parsons, Inventory No. PPINW960323 VVassar Exhibitions
Exhibition HistoryFaith and Fantasy in Outsider Art from the Permanent Collection, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, February 13 - April 26, 2009; What Now? (Or Not Yet), Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, January 21 - September 10, 2023
DescriptionLine drawing of two individuals, one with pink skin, the other with brown skin, in an interior standing next to a table with drinks and flowers. The figure on the right smokes and has a drink in hand and the figure on the left possibly has a drink in her hand. The scene is embellished with pattered details such as the circles and lines in the figures clothes and in the light above them.
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