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Walker’s drawings are almost exclusively single or double portraits of women. Though Walker never felt she was able to capture a likeness, and relied on her imagination, she created clearly recognizable characters, many of whom are based on herself.
Artist
Inez Nathaniel Walker
(1911 - 1990)
Woman With Hat
Date1976
DimensionsSight: 17 3/4 × 11 7/8 in. (45.1 × 30.2 cm)
Object numberN0065.1992
Credit LineCollection of the Fenimore Art Museum. Gift of Robert M. Doty
Photograph by Richard Walker
Label TextInez Nathaniel was born into poverty in South Carolina where she performed back-breaking farm labor until she went north to Philadelphia during the Great Migration of the 1930s. Convicted of the manslaughter of an abusive male acquaintance, she was imprisoned from 1971 to 1972. During this time, she began to draw as a way to isolate herself from the “bad girls” in the facility. Walker’s drawings are almost exclusively single or double portraits of women. Though Walker never felt she was able to capture a likeness, and relied on her imagination, she created clearly recognizable characters, many of whom are based on herself.
On View
Not on viewc.1866-1910
c. 1854
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