Soho
Object number2022.78.3
Artist
Barbara Boyd Carter
(1932 - 2019)
Datec. 1954
MediumPaper; Ink; Graphite
Credit LineGift of Debbie Carter
DescriptionRectangular art print on paper using black media. Print depicts an abstracted view of a neighborhood on a hill featuring houses and a double-steepled church. Foreground has railroad tracks at the base of the hill and bare trees that overlap the entire scene. Wide margins surround the printed area. The viewer's right edge of the paper is cut at a slight slant. Reverse is undecorated.DimensionsHeight x Width: 9.813 x 8.063 in. (24.9 x 20.5 cm)SignedArtist signature in pencil in the bottom margin just below the viewer's bottom right corner of the printed area "BOYD".
MarksHandwritten text in pencil in the bottom margin just below the viewer's bottom left corner of the printed area "Soho".
Historical NotesPrint of the Soho neighborhood of 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
On View
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