Bowdoin College Museum of Art - There Is a Woman in Every Color: Black Women in Art

There Is a Woman in Every Color: Black Women in Art

JOHN B. WORTHAM (American, 1838-1889), [African American Woman (Nanny) & Three White Children], cabinet card, late 19th century, 4 1/4 x 6 1/2 in. (10.8 x 16.51 cm), Museum Purchase, Gridley W. Tarbell II Fund, 2020.22.3. Artwork in the public domain.

Photograph of an elderly Black woman seated surrounded by a white infant seated on the woman’s proper right knee, a young white girl resting against the woman at her proper left, and a young white boy standing at the woman’s proper right. All subjects are against a studio photography backdrop

Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine

Bowdoin College Museum of Art