<I>African Women</I>
date: label: Date
content: 1982
name: label: Created by
content: Varnette Honeywood, American, 1950 - 2010
notes: label: Description
content: A reproduction print titled “African Women” by Varnette Honeywood. The vibrant print depicts a left profile view of six women of different skin tones and different colors and styles of headwear, standing in pairs. Going from back left to front right, the color of the headwears are blue, yellow, green, pink, white, and teal. The woman in the front left wearing a yellow headwear is carrying an akua’ba, a wooden ritual fertility doll used in Southern Ghana and surrounding areas.The woman behind her in the pink headwear is carrying a baby via back wrap. The women in the yellow, green, and white headwear are carrying low, black baskets on their heads. Behind the women, an orange sun hangs in a pale orange sky.
label: Description
content: The artist signed the print on the front, bottom right in pencil outside of the artwork [© Varnette P. Honeywood, 1982] and wrote the title in the bottom left ["African Women"]. A second signature of the artist is in the bottom right corner inside of the artwork "Varnette P. Honeywood."
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Africa
label: Topic
content: Art
label: Topic
content: Motherhood
label: Topic
content: Women
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Visual Arts
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the Estate of Carroll Parrott Blue
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2023.39.17
objectType: label: Type
content: reproductions
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Varnette Honeywood
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (image): 14 1/2 × 29 in. (36.8 × 73.7 cm)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W (sheet): 16 1/2 × 20 1/4 in. (41.9 × 51.4 cm)