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

WILLIAM MATTHEW PRIOR (American, 1806–1873), Mrs. Nancy Lawson, 1843, oil on canvas, 30 1/8 in. x 25 in. (76.52 cm x 63.5 cm), Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont. Artwork in the public domain.

Painted portrait of Mrs. Nancy Lawson, a Black woman wearing an untied lace cap, black ribbon necklace, and a fancy dress while holding a book. She is seated against burgundy velvet curtains with a window looking out to a pastoral landscape

Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine

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