Frontal Portrait Study of a Navajo Girl

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Description

Provided by Timothy Mayhew: Copperpoint with Italian white marble heightening (Crushed marble ground in gum Arabic and water) on Fabriano 140 pound hot pressed paper prepared with lapis lazuli and calcined bone mixed with rabbit skin glue. The drawing was done in August of 2000 and the preparation was created and placed on the paper on May 30, 1998. (Of note, this drawing was one of several metalpoint drawings done of a young Navajo woman in the preparation for her portrait painting entitled "Navajo Turquoise.")

Dimensions

20.3 x 17.7 cm (8 x 6 15/16 in.)

Provenance

Timothy Mayhew, Farmington, NM, Sold to Harvard University Art Museums, 2001