Pretty for a Black Girl (#4 in Portrait Series)

1998

John Pinderhughes American, born 1946

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Pretty for a Black Girl (#4 in Portrait Series)

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Title Pretty for a Black Girl (#4 in Portrait Series)

Artwork Date 1998

Artist John Pinderhughes

Life Dates born 1946

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. American

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Archival inkjet photo print on museo silver rag paper

Dimensions Image: 14 1/2 x 17 in. (36.8 x 43.2 cm) Sheet: 20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm)

Classification Photographs

Department African American Art

Credit Museum purchase in memory of Victoria Davenport with funds from Wendell Cox, Detroit Chapter Of Girlfriends, Inc., Ifeoma Aitkenehad, Nettie Seabrooks, Jack Martin, Elyse Fink Jones, Leroy Daggs, Steve Lockhart, Joseph Hudson, Jr., Alvin Bell, Margaret H. Demant, Michael Daniels, Valerie Mercer, Tiffany Moore, Katherine Hansen, Lucinda Hawkins, Dores McCree, Frank Glover

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 2011.38

Markings

Signed Signed on sheet, lower right: PINDERHUGHES

Inscriptions Signed on sheet, lower right: PINDERHUGHES Inscribed and dated on sheet, lower left: 1/10 1998

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2011-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Courtesy of John Pinderhughes

John Pinderhughes, Pretty for a Black Girl (#4 in Portrait Series), 1998, archival inkjet photo print on Museo silver rag paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Museum purchase in memory of Victoria Davenport with funds from Wendell Cox, et al., 2011.38.