The White Dress | Yale University Art Gallery

1999

Medium: Screenprint
Dimensions: image: 22 7/16 × 17 5/8 in. (57 × 44.8 cm)
sheet: 28 1/16 × 22 15/16 in. (71.3 × 58.3 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Jean and Robert E. Steele, M.P.H. 1971, M.S. 1974, Ph.D. 1975, in honor of Lisa Hodermarsky, the Sutphin Family Curator of Prints and Drawings
Accession Number: 2019.89.3
Geography: Made in United States
Culture: American
Period: 20th century
Classification: Prints
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Provenance

Purchase, Lou Stovall Workshop, Washington, D.C., December 11, 1999; Jean and Robert Steele, College Part, Maryland 1999–2019; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Object copyright

Not Assigned

Additional information

Object/Work type

figures (representations), screen prints

Subject

African American artists Women artists clothing

Edition

PP 1/5

Marks

Chopmark, LL corner

Inscriptions

LL corner in graphite: PP 1/5; lower margin, center, in graphite: ThE WHITE DRESS

Signed

LR corner, in graphite: Gwen Knight '99

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The White Dress Artist: Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence (American, born Barbados, 1913–2005) Printer: Lou Stovall (American, born 1937) Publisher: Workshop Inc. (Washington, D.C., founded 1968)