Chinese Hand Laundry
Object number2022.78.2
Artist
Barbara Boyd Carter
(1932 - 2019)
Datec. 1954
MediumPaper; Paint(?) or Ink(?); Graphite
Credit LineGift of Debbie Carter
DescriptionRectangular art print (linocut) on wove paper. Print depicts an interior scene of a laundry business with numerous figures working; there is a young child in the center foreground that gazes directly at the viewer. Print is executed in black, brown, and off-white media and has off-white margins surrounding the printed image. Print is offset on the paper and the perimeter of paper has discoloration and print media.DimensionsHeight x Width x Depth: 11 x 11.25 x 0.016 in. (27.9 x 28.6 x 0 cm)SignedArtist signature in pencil in the bottom margin in the viewer's right corner "B. Boyd".
MarksBottom margin has handwritten text in pencil in the viewer's left corner "Chinese Hand Laundry".
Historical NotesPrint of a Chinese laundry in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, by Barbara Boyd Carter. Part of a collection of artwork by Barbara Boyd Carter when she was an art student at Carnegie Tech and thereafter. Carter graduated in 1954 with a BFA in Pictorial Design. Growing up in Flemington, New Jersey, to a family of three generations of house painters, houses were lifelong subject matter for her, prompted by a college study project of derelict houses in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh.
Related institution
Carnegie Mellon University
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