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Honoré Sharrer
Workers and Paintings, 1943
Sharrer worked downtown, near Manhattan's Union Square, but shared with her Harlem peers a desire to celebrate "ordinary people." "It is these distinguished-undistinguished players," she said, "that moved and interested me." Sharrer depicts American families presenting and reacting to well-known paintings, including Grant Wood's iconic American Gothic (1930) and Pablo Picasso's Girl before a Mirror (1932). In different ways, most of the artists she chose to represent here -- including the French realist Jean-François Millet and the Mexican muralist Diego Rivera -- were known for their sympathetic portrayals of working people. |