Laura Wheeler Waring,(American,1887-1948),Woman With Bouquet circa 1940,oil on canvas
With hand on hip and confident bearing,this woman is self-assured and elegant.She was probably from the Philadelphia area,where the artist Laura Wheeler Waring lived and worked.Like Waring's other portraits of urbane and sophisticated or dignified working class African Americans,this painting countered the many racial stereotypes that were prevalent at the time.Waring's work with its strong color palette and energetic brushwork,flourished during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s,a period of great African American Artista m artistic and cultural production-Brooklyn Museum
Laura Wheeler Waring,(American,1887-1948),Woman With Bouquet circa 1940,oil on canvas
With hand on hip and confident bearing,this woman is self-assured and elegant.She was probably from the Philadelphia area,where the artist Laura Wheeler Waring lived and worked.Like Waring's other portraits of urbane and sophisticated or dignified working class African Americans,this painting countered the many racial stereotypes that were prevalent at the time.Waring's work with its strong color palette and energetic brushwork,flourished during the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s,a period of great African American Artista m artistic and cultural production-Brooklyn Museum