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Title:Window Shopper
Artist:Aaron Douglas (American, Topeka, Kansas 1899–1979 Nashville, Tennessee)
Date:ca. 1930
Medium:Etching and aquatint
Dimensions:10 1/16 × 8 3/8 in. (25.6 × 21.2 cm)
Classification:Prints
Credit Line:Gift of Reba and Dave Williams, 1999
Object Number:1999.529.60
Inscription: Inscribed (lower left, in graphite): Window Shopper; signed (lower right, in graphite): A. Douglas
[Steven L. Jones, Philadelphia, until 1992; sold on September 1, 1992 to Williams]; Reba and Dave Williams, New York (1992–99; their gift to MMA)
Newark Museum, held jointly at the Equitable Gallery, New York. "Alone in a Crowd: Prints of the 1930s–1940s by African-American Artists from the Collection of Reba and Dave Williams," December 10, 1992–February 28, 1993, no. 29.
Long Beach Museum of Art. "Alone in a Crowd: Prints of the 1930s–1940s by African-American Artists from the Collection of Reba and Dave Williams," June 4–August 8, 1993, no. 29.
Cambridge, England. Fitzwilliam Museum. "Alone in a Crowd: Prints of the 1930s–1940s by African-American Artists from the Collection of Reba and Dave Williams," October 5–December 19, 1993, no. 29.
Albany. New York State Museum. "Alone in a Crowd: Prints of the 1930s–1940s by African-American Artists from the Collection of Reba and Dave Williams," January 5–March 13, 1994, no. 29.
New Haven. Yale University Art Gallery. "Alone in a Crowd: Prints of the 1930s–1940s by African-American Artists from the Collection of Reba and Dave Williams," April 7–June 12, 1994, no. 29.
Louisville. Speed Art Museum. "Alone in a Crowd: Prints of the 1930s–1940s by African-American Artists from the Collection of Reba and Dave Williams," July 12–September 4, 1994, no. 29.
Philadelphia Museum of Art. "Alone in a Crowd: Prints of the 1930s–1940s by African-American Artists from the Collection of Reba and Dave Williams," October 9–December 4, 1994, no. 29.
Baltimore Museum of Art. "Alone in a Crowd: Prints of the 1930s–1940s by African-American Artists from the Collection of Reba and Dave Williams," January 4–February 26, 1995, no. 29.
Charleston. Gibbes Museum of Art. "Alone in a Crowd: Prints of the 1930s–1940s by African-American Artists from the Collection of Reba and Dave Williams," March 26–May 21, 1995, no. 29.
Miami Beach. Bass Museum of Art. "Alone in a Crowd: Prints of the 1930s–1940s by African-American Artists from the Collection of Reba and Dave Williams," June 18–August 13, 1995, no. 29.
Little Rock. Arkansas Arts Center. "Alone in a Crowd: Prints of the 1930s–1940s by African-American Artists from the Collection of Reba and Dave Williams," September 10–November 5, 1995, no. 29.
Mobile, Ala. Fine Arts Museum of the South. "Alone in a Crowd: Prints of the 1930s–1940s by African-American Artists from the Collection of Reba and Dave Williams," December 3, 1995–January 28, 1996, no. 29.
Brooklyn Museum. "Alone in a Crowd: Prints of the 1930s–1940s by African-American Artists from the Collection of Reba and Dave Williams," February 25–April 22, 1996, no. 29.
Art Institute of Chicago. "Alone in a Crowd: Prints of the 1930s–1940s by African-American Artists from the Collection of Reba and Dave Williams," May 17–July 14, 1996, no. 29.
Dallas Museum of Art. "Alone in a Crowd: Prints of the 1930s–1940s by African-American Artists from the Collection of Reba and Dave Williams," August 9–October 6, 1996, no. 29.
Saint Louis Art Museum. "Alone in a Crowd: Prints of the 1930s–1940s by African-American Artists from the Collection of Reba and Dave Williams," November 1, 1996–January 2, 1997, no. 29.
Atlanta. High Museum of Art. "Alone in a Crowd: Prints of the 1930s–1940s by African-American Artists from the Collection of Reba and Dave Williams," January 31–March 30, 1997, no. 29.
Lawrence. Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas. "Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist," September 8–December 2, 2007, unnumbered cat. (pl. 91).
Nashville. Frist Center for the Visual Arts. "Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist," January 18–April 13, 2008, unnumbered cat.
Washington, D. C. Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery. "Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist," May 9–August 3, 2008, unnumbered cat.
New York. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. "Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist," August 30–November 30, 2008, unnumbered cat.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Street," March 5–May 27, 2013, no catalogue.
Louise Lequire. "Art in Review: New Aaron Douglas Works Featured at Fisk Gallery." Nashville Banner (November 25, 1955), p. 6, ill. (unknown edition), calls it "Windowshoppers"
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Reba and Dave Williams inAlone in a Crowd: Prints of the 1930s–40s by African-American Artists; From the Collection of Reba and Dave Williams. Exh. cat., Newark Museum. New York, 1993, pp. 8, 49, no. 29, fig. 5.
Lowery Stokes Sims inAlone in a Crowd: Prints of the 1930s–40s by African-American Artists; From the Collection of Reba and Dave Williams. Exh. cat., Newark Museum. New York, 1993, p. 4.
Michele Stepto. African-American Voices. Brookfield, Conn., 1995, ill. p. 85.
Helen Langa. Radical Art: Printmaking and the Left in 1930s New York. Berkeley, 2004, p. 138, fig. 63.
Stephanie Fox Knappe inAaron Douglas: African American Modernist. Ed. Susan Earle. Exh. cat., Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas. Lawrence, Kan., 2007, pp. 221, 225, colorpl. 91, dates it about 1955.
Marcel Duchamp (American (born France), Blanville 1887–1968 Neuilly-sur-Seine)
1934
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