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Doris Lindo Lewis
What Came Beforeearly 1930s

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Oil painting of a shirtless boy leaning toward objects on the ground, which blends into an embedded human face and an outstretched pale hand, surrounded by plants and storm clouds
Artist or Maker
Doris Lindo Lewis
United States, 1909-1995
Title
What Came Before
Date Made
early 1930s
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Canvas: 18 × 36 in. (45.72 × 91.44 cm) Frame: 34 1/4 × 48 1/4 × 2 in. (87 × 122.56 × 5.08 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of J. Denis and Sydney Lewis Glover
Accession Number
M.2013.219
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
American Art

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