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Nude, Seated Negress with Indian Bowl

1928
20th century
23 15/16 x 17 15/16 in. (60.8 x 45.56 cm)

John Sloan, American, (1871–1951)

Object Type: painting
Creation Place: North America, United States, New York
Medium and Support: Flaxseed tempera underpaint; oil-varnish glaze on panel (Masonite)
Credit Line: Gift of Bill Bomar
Accession Number: 1981.190

Object Description
Female nude seated on blue drapery on the floor; her right hand rests on an indian pot; window at upper left with a view of a triumphal arch; she faces to the left; her calves are bent back behind her; her left hand rests on the heel of her left foot.

Elzea, Rowland, John Sloan's Oil Paintings, A Catalogue Raisonne, Part Two, 1991 lists the model was Edna Guy, an African American woman who appears several times in Sloan's works from the 1920s through 1930.

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