DrawingsAmerican19th-20th century

Head of a Black Woman

19th-20th century

Artists

Thomas Schofield HandforthArtist

Classification

Drawings

Medium

Black crayon on off-white wove paper

Culture

American

Century

19th-20th century

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Department

Department of Drawings

Dimensions

30.6 x 24.4 cm (12 1/16 x 9 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, Massachusetts (L.2091), by 1928, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965.

Related Artworks

Drawings

Untitled [Roofs; Woman Wheeling Carriage]

Lyonel Feininger, 4/11/1907

Graphite on paper

20th centuryGerman

Drawings

Weaving Technique: H ( Loom Shuttle)

Lena Bergner, 1943

Black ink, partly over graphite, on cream laid paper.

20th centuryGerman

Drawings

Gondoliers

Carl Pickhardt, 20th century

Graphite on off-white wove paper

20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Untitled (bleed-through of previous page, left page); Untitled (blank, right page)

Otto Piene, 1994

Black marker on paper

20th centuryGerman

Drawings

CR 280, graphite sketch on ruled paper

Barnett Newman, 20th century

Graphite on cream colored-paper industrially-lined paper in a wire bound notebook with printed, coded, brown cardboard.

20th centuryAmerican

Drawings

Total Theater for Erwin Piscator, Berlin, 1927: First floor plan, 1:200

Walter Gropius, 1927

Graphite on paper

20th centuryGerman

Drawings

Competition Entry for Marie-von-Boschan- Aschrott Home of the Aged, Kassel, 1929-1930: Elevation

Walter Gropius, 1929-1930

Graphite on paper

20th centuryGerman

Drawings

Untitled (bleed-through of previous page, left page); Untitled (view of Tobago, right page)

Otto Piene, 1994

Colored marker on paper

20th centuryGerman

Drawings

Untitled [Two Women]

Lyonel Feininger, 12/26/1908

Blue, green and pink crayon on paper

20th centuryGerman

Drawings

"Haus Sonnenfang" Sanatorium, Berlin, 1931: Roof plan

Walter Gropius, 1931

Graphite on paper

20th centuryGerman

Drawings

Untitled (bleed-through of previous page, left page); Untitled (bird inflatable with color transfer, right page)

Otto Piene, 1977

Blue marker and black pen on paper

20th centuryGerman

Drawings

Angel of Suffering, for St. Catherine Window, Christ Church, Oxford; verso: blank

Edward Burne-Jones, c. 1878

Graphite on heavy cream wove paper

19th centuryBritish