Hilda Wilkinson BrownAmerican
Oak Bluffs
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Not receiving at present
Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
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- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
About the work
Hilda Wilkinson Brown, an artist and art educator, grew up and spent her entire life in Washington, D.C. She spent her summers at her family’s retreat near the Oak Bluffs area of Martha’s Vineyard. At the time, the beach depicted here was reserved for African Americans and known in code as “the inkwell.” As Brown’s niece, the artist Lillian Thomas Burwell, noted, this is an especially poignant image, “in a family sense, of Negro exclusion and reconciliation of the times.”
Art Institute of ChicagoCC BY 4.0
Particulars
- Accession number
- 1997.311
What it shows
In the catalog
Sources
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Image: Art Institute of Chicago — © the artist or rights holder
