Vieille Fille
Artist
Beatrice Wood
(American, 1893 - 1998)
Date1927
Mediumwatercolor on paper
DimensionsImage: 11 7/8 × 7 in. (30.2 × 17.8 cm)
Support: 11 7/8 × 8 7/8 in. (30.2 × 22.5 cm)
Mat: 17 × 14 in. (43.2 × 35.6 cm)
Support: 11 7/8 × 8 7/8 in. (30.2 × 22.5 cm)
Mat: 17 × 14 in. (43.2 × 35.6 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineBequest of the Rick Dillingham Estate, 1994
Object number1994.67.71
DescriptionWoman sitting on wood bench under a green palm tree. She wears green dress. Her brown hair is parted in middle of head and covers each ear. Her proper R hand rest of her cheek as she gazes to L. Her proper L leg crosses over her R knee.eMuseum Notes
Beatrice Wood is best known for her ceramic sculpture. However,
Wood did not begin to study ceramics until she was forty years old as her early
artistic life was spent as an actress. The majority of Wood’s drawings come from
a clearly female voice and a personal perspective. Among her reflective
self-portraits is this drawing, Vieille Fille made by the artist while in her early thirties. The title roughly translates
into English as “Old Maid.”
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