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WASH DAY, CABIN SCENE |
CHINESE LAUNDRY |
CLOTHESPIN, 1976 |
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This is
typical of William Aiken Walker’s portrayal of
southern blacks after the Civil War, which served as
nostalgic mementos of the antebellum era.
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A few
members of a group of Chinese illegally smuggled into
New Jersey in the late 1870s to work in a hand laundry
soon made the move to New York, sparking an explosion
of Chinese hand laundries. (Learn
more...)
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Claes
Oldenburg was born January 28, 1929, in Stockholm,
Sweden, but spent most of his childhood in the United
States. After studies at Yale University and the Art
Institute of Chicago, he moved to New York City in
1956, where he established himself in the early 1960s
with a series of installations and performances
influenced by his surroundings on the Lower East Side.
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more...)
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This is not a Northern Irish leperachaun, but a
Bulgarian man displaying a 16th century washing
machine.
(Credit:
Professor Emerita
Joan Roelofs) |
"Man and woman washing
linen in a brook", from William Henry Pyne's
Microcosm, 1806 |
Thomas Rowlandson:
Matrimonial Comforts – Washing Day, 1810 |
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歌川国芳 (Utagawa
Kuniyoshi, 1798 - 1861) |
Pietro Longhi,
Die
Wäscherinnen (c. 1740) |
Pierre-Auguste Renoir,
Wäscherinnen (c. 1912) |
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Clothesline, by Mary
Azarian |
Untitled (Laundry on
Clothesline), ca. 1929. Gelatin-silver print, 4
3/8 x 6 7/8 inches. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
Gift, The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation.
96.4502.13. © 2005 The Josef and Anni Albers
Foundation/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
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Monday washing in New York
City
PHOTOGRAPHER / CREDIT: Detroit Photographic Co.
DATE: 1900 |
