Laura Wheeler Waring
Laura Wheeler Waring was an American artist and educator, best known for her paintings of prominent African Americans that she made during the Harlem Renaissance—an amazing movement spanning the 1920s and 1930s and an intellectual and cultural revival of African American music, dance, art, fashion, literature, theater, and politics centered in Harlem (in New York City). Waring’s work, with its strong color palette and energetic brushwork, flourished then.
With hand on hip and confident bearing, this woman is self-assured and elegant. She was probably from the Philadelphia area, where the artist lived and worked. Like Waring’s other portraits of sophisticated or dignified working-class African Americans, this painting countered the many racial stereotypes that were prevalent at the time.
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