Work Record
Class [controlled]: prints and drawings American art
*Work Type [link]: watercolor drawing
*Title: Nous Quatre à Paris
Title: We Four in Paris Title Type: translated
Title: Four Men Playing Cards Title Type: descriptive
*Creator Display: Palmer Hayden (American painter, 1893-1973)
*Role [link]: painter [link]: Hayden, Palmer
*Creation Date: ca. 1930 [controlled]: Earliest: 1925 Latest: 1935
*Subject [links]: human figures genre portraits African American card game
Style [link]: Harlem Renaissance
Culture [link]: African American French
*Current Location [link]: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, New York, United States) ID: unavailable
*Measurements: 55.88 x 45.72 cm (22 x 18 inches)
[controlled] Value: 55.88 Unit: cm Type: height | Value: 45.72 Unit: cm Type: width
*Materials and Techniques: watercolor on paper
Material [links]: watercolor paper
Description: A watercolor painting in the modern style, which had first developed in New York, by a prolific African-American artist that documents the “Negro Colony” of artists in Paris during the 1920s and 1930s.
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