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Title:Girl in Blue Dress
Artist:Samuel Joseph Brown, Jr. (American, Wilmington, North Carolina 1907–1994 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
Date:1936
Medium:Watercolor on paper
Dimensions:30 1/2 × 21 1/2 in. (77.5 × 54.6 cm)
Classification:Drawings
Credit Line:Gift of Pennsylvania W. P. A., 1943
Accession Number:43.46.13
Inscription: Signed and dated: (lower right): Samuel J. Brown '36
Pennsylvania W. P. A. (1936–43; their gift to MMA)
New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "Metropolitan and Whitney Museum Accessions," September 17–October 3, 1946, no catalogue.
Brooklyn. Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation. "Selected Works by Black Artists from the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art," April 14–June 14, 1976, unnumbered cat. (as "Girl on Blue Dress").
New York. Studio Museum in Harlem. "New York/Chicago: WPA and the Black Artist," November 13, 1977–January 8, 1978, unnumbered cat.
Chicago Public Library Cultural Center Exhibit Hall. "WPA and the Black Artist, Chicago and New York," March 22–April 23, 1978, unnumbered cat.
New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, The Arsenal. "Selected Works by Black Artists from the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art," February 7–March 30, 1979, no catalogue.
Philadelphia. Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies. "Samuel Brown: A Retrospective," January 31–March 25, 1983, unnumbered cat. (p. 10).
Pleasantville, N. Y. Reader's Digest. "Faces and Figures: Selected Works by Black Artists from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," February 12–April 1, 1988, brochure no. 7.
Newark Museum. "Against the Odds: African-American Artists and the Harmon Foundation," January 15–April 15, 1990, unnumbered cat. (pl. 16).
Charleston, S. C. Gibbes Museum of Art. "Against the Odds: African-American Artists and the Harmon Foundation," May 7–July 9, 1990, unnumbered cat.
Chicago Cultural Center. "Against the Odds: African-American Artists and the Harmon Foundation," July 28–September 29, 1990, unnumbered cat.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism," February 20–July 28, 2024, unnumbered cat. (pl. 40).
Lowery S. Sims. Selected Works by Black Artists from the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. cat., Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation. [New York], 1976, unpaginated.
Lowery Sims. "The Metropolitan: Collecting Black Art." Routes Magazine 3 (May 1980), p. 24.
Lowery S. Sims. Faces and Figures: Selected Works by Black Artists from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Exh. brochure, Reader's Digest, Pleasantville, N.Y. 1988, unpaginated, no. 7.
Lowery Stokes Sims inThe Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism. Ed. Denise Murrell. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2024, pp. 115, 298, fig. 93 (color, detail), colorpl. 40.
Darryl Pinckney. "'Who Shall Describe Beauty?'." New York Review of Books 71 (May 9, 2024), p. 21.
Samuel Joseph Brown, Jr. (American, Wilmington, North Carolina 1907–1994 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
ca. 1940
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