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

UNIDENTIFIED PHOTOGRAPHER (American), Sojourner Truth with Flowers, CDV, 1864, albumen silver print, 4 x 2 1/2 in. (10.16 x 6.35 cm), Museum Purchase, James Phinney Baxter Fund, 2018.36. Artwork in the public domain.

Carte de visite of Sojourner Truth seated in chair wearing a dress, cap, and shawl, holding a pair of knitting needles and yarn as her proper left-hand rests on a fabric-covered table with a vase of flowers atop. A printed inscription at the bottom of the photograph reads: “I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance. Sojourner Truth.”

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