Courtyard Scene

M. R. Hubbert Smith

About 1930

  • Titles Courtyard Scene (Descriptive)
  • Artist M. R. Hubbert Smith, American, 1885 - 1957
  • Medium linocut
  • Dimensions sheet: 4 1/4 × 5 5/8 in. (10.8 × 14.3 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Patrick Cather, Shoal Creek, Alabama, AFI.125.2016
  • Work Type print
  • Classification Prints

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A black and white photograph shows a black girl looking out from a window of a cabin. The wall seen, is made of tree logs and mug mortar. The open window is made of plants of wood with a newspaper nailed to it, from the inside. The newspaper shows a white woman holding a dish of food. The black girl with a serious facial expression is looking away from the camera.
Nude, George Biddle, lithograph
Figures in Market, Lucille Douglass, charcoal
**Obverse: All within decorative border, number "5" within shield at upper left and right corners; decorative panel at far left with number "12398" (vertically aligned and printed in red ink) / WESTERN BANK NOTE AND (long space) ENGRAVING CO. CHICAGO / CROSBY OPERA HOUSE ART ASS'N / THIS / CERTIFICATE / IN THE / [central image of Crosby Opera House] / AWARD / of / PREMIUMS / ENTITLES THE BEARER TO / ONE FINE STEEL ENGRAVING / UPON ITS SURRENDER. / Chicago . Ill. / 1866 / FIVE / DOLLARS / [mechanically printed signature] U. H. Crosby / MANAGER; faux watermark at left, printed in orange, within a decorative marquise-shaped border, INTERNAL * REVENUE / [bust portrait Abraham Lincoln looking right] / FIVE CENTS / 5 Reverse: Hand-cancelled in blue ink with oval-shaped stamp: ENGRAVING DELIVERED / CROSBY, A. A. NEW YORK. (around) / AUG / 9 / 1866 (center)