[Women’s Work],, (undated)

Lubell 10/7: 328

Gouache (with black ink) of a woman’s torso. She is seated, doing mending. In one hand is a patched cloth and a needle and thread is in the other. To the right is a washboard and to the left is a pot-bellied stove with a cooking pot on it and a plant with flowers. This is painted on heavy, patterned scratch board and the colors are predominantly gray and black, with the cloth, some detail in white and the flowers in pink. Some black areas were incised to show white beneath. This is the same scene as prints Lubell 200a-b, titled Women’s Work, and a photocopy of which is in ARCHIVAL MATERIAL, Box 17, Folder 10. There is a related woodblock, titled Woman’s Tools (Lubell 505, Box 41).

24.3 x 34.9 cm