Primitive Girl

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A linocut portrait of a young woman. The woman is depicted from the shoulders up, in three-quarters profile facing the left side. She wears a headwrap with a scalloped detail and a shirt with a square collar. In front of her is a thick, curved shape with multiple. The background is a sky filled with clouds. Within the image at the bottom right corner is [L Wells]. The title of the print [Primitive Girl] is written in pencil on the bottom right corner underneath the image with [7/50] written on the bottom center. The print is signed on the bottom left corner in pencil: [James L. Wells]. The printed sheet is adhered to a larger sheet of paper.

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