A light-skinned, red-haired woman sits in profile facing our left in front of a window, sewing at table in a room bathed in sunlight in this vertical painting. The loosely painted scene is dominated by slivery grays, cream, and ivory white. She faces our left with her head tipped slightly away from as she looks down at her hands. Her face is in shadow but her pale cheeks are deeply flushed, and her neck and arms are tinged with pink. Her cream-white dress has sheer elbow-length sleeves covered with a stylized floral pattern. Shadows are created with soft, steel blue. She sits on a wooden…
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The Seamstress

painter Joseph Rodefer DeCamp (American, 1858 - 1923)

1916

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 92.2 × 71.6 cm (36 5/16 × 28 3/16 in.) ; framed: 121.3 × 101 × 7.6 cm (47 3/4 × 39 3/4 × 3 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund, 1916)
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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