| Wash Day | |
|---|---|
| Artist | Grandma Moses |
| Year | 1945 |
| Medium | Oil paint, composition board |
| Dimensions | 45.7 cm (18.0 in) × 59.7 cm (23.5 in) |
| Location | Rhode Island School of Design Museum |
| Accession No. | 46.342
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Wash Day is a 1945 oil painting by the American outsider painter Grandma Moses, produced at age 85 and signed "Moses". It has been in the collection of the Rhode Island School of Design Museum since 1946. [1]
It shows a scene of the artist's impression of a wash day, with a clothes line flapping in the wind before a house with people gathered around a well with large wash tubs.
See also
References
- ^ Painting record for 46.342, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Gift of Mrs. Murray S. Danforth
- Image of the painting in the 1946 version of Otto Kallir's Grandma Moses: American Primitive catalog
- Image of the painting in the 1975 abridged version of Otto Kallir's 1973 catalogue raisonné
- Otto Kallir, Grandma Moses, Complete edition, New York, Harry N. Abrams, 1973, cat. nr. 498 p. 296, plate 85