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Anna

c. 1940

Charles L. Sallée

(American, 1911–2006)
Culture
America
Medium
etching and aquatint
Measurements
Plate: 24.5 x 19.8 cm (9 5/8 x 7 13/16 in.); Sheet: 30.5 x 25.5 cm (12 x 10 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of John Puskas 1994.274
Catalogue raisonné
Salsbury, Benay, and Kruse 70 (as Martha)
Edition
possibly 25 to 50
Copyright
© The Estate of Charles L. Sallée
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
Print
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Did You Know?

Charles Sallée also made a print of Anna drawing in a class at Karamu House.

Description

Here, Charles Sallée depicted a fellow artist from Karamu’s studio art program. He described knowing her from classes and admiring her “curious, inquiring quality.” Sallée noted that this print was made through the WPA, or Works Progress Administration, a federally funded program that supported artists during the financial strife of the Great Depression. Sallée frequented Cleveland’s WPA graphic arts workshop, where he experimented with aquatint, the technique used for grainy areas of tone in the background and in Anna’s skin and hair. This process was popular at the workshop, with some participants even inventing their own variations.
Vertically oriented print in brown tones of a woman with medium skin tone from the shoulders up, facing us, in front of a brown background. Her face is relaxed, lips curving up into a faint smile. She wears a white, collared coat with a white band rising to a point adorned with a bow pulling back her hair. Fine, cross-hatch lines and a speckled brown create a grainy texture.

Anna

c. 1940

Charles L. Sallée

(American, 1911–2006)
America

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