<I>Children Playing</I>
date: label: Date
content: 1952
name: label: Created by
content: Jackie Edwards
label: Printed by
content: Committee for the Negro in the Arts, American, founded 1947
label: Owned by
content: Will Lee, American, 1908 - 1982
notes: label: Description
content: A mimeograph reproduction of Children Playing, by Jackie Edwards for the Committee for the Negro in the Arts, Art Workshop Folio. Printed in black on white paper, it is a reproduction of a charcoal drawing that depicts a girl, standing with her back to the viewer, watching a group of children playing in a circle with linked hands. The girl, who stands in the foreground on the left side of the drawing, is depicted from the thighs up standing with her hands curled into fists at her side. She is leaning against the corner of a brick wall watching the other children play. She has long dark hair and is wearing a light, long sleeve shirt and dark pants. The children she watches, who stand in the right mid ground, are depicted standing in full length in a circle. The eight bigger children have their heads turned and are looking towards a ninth, smaller child who is standing with her proper right arm akimbo and looking up towards a boy wearing a schoolboy hat. In the background is a trio of girls and two children who appear to be chasing one another. In the distance background is a row of tree trunks shaded above with dark foliage. The drawing has a thin top border, and a thicker bottom border. The artist signature, [Edwards], is written in the bottom right corner. The verso is blank.
place: label: Place printed
content: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: Activism
label: Topic
content: Art
label: Topic
content: Associations and institutions
label: Topic
content: Children
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Portfolio/Series
content: Committee for the Negro in the Arts, Art Workshop Folio
label: Classification
content: Visual Arts
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2023.117.2.6
objectType: label: Type
content: drawings
label: Type
content: mimeograph copies
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: © Jackie Edwards
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on paper (fiber product)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D: 14 1/8 × 8 7/16 × 1/16 in. (35.8 × 21.5 × 0.1 cm)