Three girls with flower backdrop

1949

Not on view

Black and white photograph in which three female figures stand in a studio setting. They are fully frontal with the middle woman’s right arm resting on the shoulder of her friend. The outer women each drape their inner arm on the opposite shoulder of the central figure. They wear matching dresses which feature a checkerboard pattern around the neck, a leaf and bird pattern in the body, and horizontal pinstripes at the base of the skirt. Their coiffures are accented by head wraps and caps. Their eyes directly return the gaze of the viewer as they stand before a fabric backdrop of flowers.

Artwork Details

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Provenance

Title: Three girls with flower backdrop
Date: 1949
Medium: Glass, emulsion
Dimensions: H. 7 × W. 5 in. (17.8 × 12.7 cm)
Classification: Paper-Photographs
Credit Line: Gift of Susan Mullin Vogel, 2015
Object Number: 2015.499.20
Curatorial Department: The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing

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