Woman Sleeping

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

A mimeograph reproduction of Woman Sleeping, by Earle Nixon for the Committee for the Negro in the Arts, Art Workshop Folio. Printed in black ink on white paper, it is a reproduction of a pen and ink line drawing that depicts a woman, curled on her side while sleeping. The woman is shown in close up from the waist up. She is laying on her proper right side, facing the viewer. Her wavy, ear length hair is parted down the proper left side and her eyes are closed as if sleeping. Her arms are curled inwards and her proper right cheek is resting on her proper right forearm and the top of her proper left hand. She is wearing a collared blouse over a shirt with a jewel neckline. The verso is blank.

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