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A woman is sitting at a sewing machine working; colors are ochre, brown, black, green, flesh and grey.
Seamstress
Courtesy of the Harn Museum of Art, Photography by Foad Seyed Mohammadi

Seamstress

Artist Rosa Rush (American, active 20th Century)
Publisher/Publishing House Works Progress Administration - Federal Arts Project (1935 - 1943)
Datec. 1935-1943
MediumColor woodcut
Dimensionsmat: 24 × 20 in. (61 × 50.8 cm)
sheet: 18 x 14 in. (45.7 x 35.6 cm)
image: 14 1/8 x 10 1/8 in. (35.9 x 25.7 cm)
ClassificationsPrints
Credit LineCourtesy of the Fine Arts Program, Public Buildings Service, U.S. General Services Administration, commissioned through the New Deal Art Projects, with gratitude to Dr. and Mrs. Corbin S. Carnell, in memory of E. Muriel Adams.
Object numberL2012.54.62
Collections
Visual DescriptionA woman is sitting at a sewing machine working; colors are ochre, brown, black, green, flesh and grey.
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1920-1940
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Salvator Rosa
c. 1661
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Richard Steinmetz
1976
Portrait of a woman in abstract color and high value, black, grey, olive green, ochre, sienna inks.
Richard Steinmetz
1976
A couple is dancing and musical instruments and rhythm patterns fill the composition; colors are black, brown, yellow, green.
Mildred Rackley
c. 1935-1943
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Lamar Baker
1940
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Richard Steinmetz
1976
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Richard Steinmetz
1976
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