Head of an Old Negro

Fannie Drennen Hewitt

1913

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This watercolor and its custom-cut, gold-colored mat represent a stained glass window for a church. The format includes two long, figural lower panels as well as twelve additional decorative elements above. Together all of these cut outs form a pointed (gothic) arch. In the lower left figural panel a woman (the Virgin Mary) wearing blue drapery kneels in front of a column. In the lower right figural panel a man (Jesus) wearing pink-white drapery raises his right arm, pointing his index finger.
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Cliff, John Heliker, crayon lithograph on Arches paper
This image is created with black ink on paper. It represents a two story house with a porch to the left, built with brick on the bottom story and board on the top. The windows are in various states of disorder and on the top story some of the wood siding has fallen away, revealing the lathe and plaster of the interior walls. There are two windows in the top story and two windows in the bottom story. In front of the bottom right window there is a small outbuilding, also made of brick. There is a figure to the left of the outbuilding and another seated to the right next to a chair. Behind her stands a tree, and a second house stands behind the tree, more obscured than the first. A tree also rises from behind the upper left of the house at the left of the image.