Wash Day

Title: Wash Day
Date: 1943
Creator: Frederick D. Jones Jr., 1914-2004 See all items with this value
Contributor: Atlanta Annuals
Description: Frederick D. Jones, Jr., was a mid-twentieth-century artist from South Carolina. Wash Day is an impressionistic painting depicting a Black woman doing laundry. In the piece, a robed woman with a laundry bag on her head is washing linens outside in a neighborhood. In the background, a house and two trees are visible.
Primary Subject: 1900-1999 See all items with this value; Art See all items with this value; Labor See all items with this value
Additional Subject: Domestic Labor; Womanism; Black Feminism; Black Art
Location: Atlanta; Fulton County; Georgia; USA
Type: Painting
Medium: Watercolor
Measurements: 11 x 6.5 in.
Format: JPEG
HBCU Identifier: 1943.005
HCAC Identifier: HCAC.CAU.010
Rights: All rights held by the Clark Atlanta University Art Museum. For permission to publish, distribute, or use this image for any other purpose, please contact Clark Atlanta University Art Museum, Clark Atlanta University, (404) 880-6102 Attn: Museum Director.
Contributing Institution: Clark Atlanta University
Source: Clark Atlanta University Art Museum
Collection: Atlanta Art Annuals See all items with this value
Language: English