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Thin as Vanity

Artist Andrew Wyeth (American, 1917 - 2009)
Date1981
MediumTempera on panel
DimensionsUnframed: 31 1/4 × 16 1/8 inches (79.38 × 40.96 cm)
Framed: 42 1/4 × 26 7/8 × 2 inches (107.32 × 68.25 × 5.08 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Enid and Crosby Kemper Foundation
Object numberF82-24
Signedu.r.: "Andrew Wyeth"
On View
Not on view
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DescriptionPortrait of a young, black woman wearing two elaborate feather and bead earrings in left ear, seen 3/4-view facing left, and reflected in an old mirror which hangs on a nail positioned at upper-right center, all against an off-white, ochre, and blue-gray-painted wall.
Copyright© Andrew Wyeth / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
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