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Artwork Entries

These object entries represent three of the thematic categories that will be featured in the Seeing U.S. exhibition

American Lives


Esther Bubley

b. 1921, Phillips, Wisconsin; d. 1998, New York, New York

Collection item 2012.017.0017

C.L. Hardy Tobacco Plantation, Maury, NC, 1946

Esther Bubley

b. 1921, Phillips, Wisconsin; d. 1998, New York, New York

Collection item 2013.024.0015

Untitled (Woman’s Sewing Group), c. 1950s

Glenn O. Coleman

b. 1887, Springfield, Ohio; d. 1932, Long Beach, New York

Print of a crowd of people in New York in the 1920s

The Bowery, 1928

Allan Rohan Crite

b. North Plainfield, New Jersey; d. 2007, Boston, Massachusetts

Collection item 0351

Parade on Hammond Street, 1935

Laura Douglas

b. 1886, Winnsboro, South Carolina; d. 1962, Washington, DC

Collection item 0540

Oyster Factory, 1930

Yasuo Kuniyoshi

b. 1889, Okayama, Okayama, Japan; d. 1953, New York, New York

Collection item 1100

Maine Family, 1922-23

Dindga McCannon

b. 1947, Harlem, NY; lives and works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

quilt of an abstract man playing the trumpet

Charlie Parker and Some of the Amazing Musicians He Influenced, Painting from 1983, mixed media quilt, 2010

Joyce Wellman

b. 1949, Brooklyn, NY; lives and works in Washington, DC

Painting with red background and red and purple abstract shapes and black and white lines

The Big 5, 2005

American Landscapes


Glenn O. Coleman

b. 1887, Springfield, Ohio; d. 1932, Long Beach, New York

Painting of Battery Park

Battery Park, nd

Louis Eilshemius

b. 1864, Newark, NJ; d.1941, Kips Bay, New York

Collection item 0637

Approaching Storm, 1890

Stefan Hirsch

b. 1899, Nuremburg, Germany; d. 1964, New York, New York

Collection item 0915

New York, Lower Manhattan, 1921

Doris Lee

b. 1905, Aledo, Illinois; d. 1983, Clearwater, Florida

Collection item 1198

Illinois River Town, 1938

Delilah Pierce

b. 1904, Washington, DC; d. 1992, Washington, DC

Abstract painting of rocky cliffs by water

Gayhead Cliffs, Martha’s Vineyard, nd (Collection of the Howard University Gallery of Art)

Elizabeth Poe

b. 1888, Philadelphia, PA; d. 1947, Washington DC

Collection item 1581

Agate Heights, 1938

Abstraction and Place


Mary Lee Bendolph

b. 1935, Boykin, Alabama; lives and works Alabama

“Housetop” variation

Housetop Variation, 1998

Ralston Crawford

b. 1906, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada; d. 1978, Houston, Texas

Third Avenue Elevated No. 3, 1952

Keith Crown

b. 1918, Keokuk, Iowa; d. 2010, Colombia, Missouri

Collection item 0372

Midwestern Illinois Land, 1971

Kenzo Okada

b. 1902, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan; d. 1982, Tokyo, Japan

Collection item 1443

Footsteps, 1954

Peter Robinson

b. 1922, Washington, DC; d. 2015, Washington, DC

Abstract painting with pink background and orange, pink, red, and blue shapes

Rock Creek Park, 2000 (Collection of the Howard University Gallery of Art)

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