University of Oklahoma Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art 410 West Boyd Street Norman Oklahoma 73019
Date:
1946
Notes:
"The Fred R. Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma, Selected Works," Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004, pg. 232.
"Advancing American Art: politics and aesthetics in the State Department Exhibition, 1946-48," Montgomery, AL: Montgomery Museum of Art, 1984, no. 66.
"Best of Three, Oklahoma Collections: Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman; Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City; Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa," 1970.
"The Fred R. Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma, Selected Works," Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004, pg. 233.
"Advancing American Art: politics and aesthetics in the State Department Exhibition, 1946-48," Montgomery, AL: Montgomery Museum of Art, 1984, fig. 64, pg. 104.
(Lower right:) Ben Shahn signed
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Summary:
A young woman dressed in a black cape and a red cap stands next to a bush in front of a red brick wall in New York's Lower East Side. She looks over her left shoulder toward a black column standing next to the red brick wall.
