WattsOS
GW
Girl with Pomegranates
1938 · Oil on canvas
36 1/4 × 30 3/16 × 3/4 in. (92.1 × 76.7 × 1.9 cm)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
WATTS INDEXThe canonical database of visual culture
Laura Wheeler Waring
Artist
PaintingHarlem Renaissance
Representation
None documented
0
Institutional Exhibitions
2
Works in Collection
3
Assets Indexed
0
Authority-backed Facts
0
Publications Referenced
80%
Profile Completeness
Cultural Positioning
Movements
- • Harlem Renaissance
Related Artists
No edges recorded
Influence Graph
No influence edges encoded yet.
About
Why this artist matters now
Laura Wheeler Waring was an American artist and educator, most renowned for her realistic portraits, landscapes, still-life, and well-known African American portraitures she made during the Harlem Renaissance. She was one of the few African American artists in France, a turning point of her career and profession where she attained widespread attention, exhibited in Paris, won awards, and spent the next 30 years teaching art at Cheyney University in Pennsylvania.
Source: Smithsonian Institution · Trust score: 90% · Updated 1mo ago
Graph relationships
Taste overlap and adjacency
Movement
Harlem Renaissance
Medium
Painting
Related Artists
12 in graph
Canonical record
Artworks (2)
Record
Images
Related artists
Adjacent in the graph
Augusta Savage
Shared movement
Beauford Delaney
Shared movement
Elizabeth Catlett
Shared movement
Carl Van Vechten
Shared movement
Charles White
Shared movement
James Van Der Zee
Shared movement
Lisa Yuskavage
Also painting
Robert Ryman
Also painting
Adolph Gottlieb
Also painting
Jasper Johns
Also painting
Neo Rauch
Also painting
Richard Artschwager
Also painting
Record
Movements and affiliations
Record
Exhibitions and timeline
No exhibitions or timeline entries yet