In Dixie - Lawsy me, ah always 'spected her folks was white
Denys Wortman, American, 1887 - 1958
1933
Graphite and black crayon on paper
Sheet: 17 × 14 1/8 in. (43.2 × 35.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller
D.935.1.108
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Drawing
Research Area
Drawing
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in black crayon, lower right: Wortman
Exhibition History
No Laughing Matter: Visual Humor in Ideas of Race, Nationality, and Ethnicity, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, in conjunction with the Humanities Institute, Leslie Center for the Humanities, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October 6-December 9, 2007.
Publication History
Angela Rosenthal and David Bindman, No Laughing Matter: Visual Humor in Ideas of Race, Nationality, and Ethnicity, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2003, p. 5, ill.
Provenance
C. W. Kraushaar Art Galleries, New York; sold to Abby Aldrich Rockefeller (1874-1948), New York, February 1, 1934; given to present collection, 1935.
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