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Rosa Wiley, Seamstress
Rosa Wiley, Seamstress
Rosa Wiley, Seamstress

Rosa Wiley, Seamstress

Artist (American, 1922 - 2005)
Date1982
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 16 × 11 3/4 in. (40.6 × 29.8 cm)
Support: 17 × 14 in. (43.2 × 35.6 cm)
Mat: 24 × 20 in. (61 × 50.8 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of Anne Noggle from the New Mexico Photographic Survey Project, Museum of Fine Arts, 1981-1984, funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, 1985
Object number1985.114.1
DescriptionPortrait an elderly woman sitting facing the viewer. She has short dark hair and tired expression on her face. A piece of fabric is draped over her left shoulder, with the ends clasped in both of her hands. The woman is wearing a thimble on her right index finger and holds a sewing pin in the left corner of her mouth.
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