Aquarium
- Date
- 1938
- Material
- Poster paint on brown paper
- made in
- Memphis, Tennessee, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Drawings & watercolors
- Collection
- Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 11 3/4 x 19 1/4 in. (29.8 x 48.9 cm)
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Federal Works Agency, Work Projects Administration
- Rights
- © Weldon Sugarmon Smith / Barry B. Smith
- Object Number
- 401:1943
NOTES
Vibrant contrasting colors shimmer across this exuberant and experimental color study. Weldon Sugarmon was 13 years old when she made this painting in the free art classes at the LeMoyne Federal Art Center in Memphis, Tennessee. Between 1936 and 1943, the Work Projects Administration opened 107 community arts centers across the country in order to provide the general public with direct access to the arts. The artist later settled in St. Louis, where she raised her family and fought for social equality and legal justice through civic volunteerism.
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