Uncle Berry

Maria Howard Weeden

about 1900

  • Titles Uncle Berry (Proper)
  • Artist Maria Howard Weeden, American, 1846 - 1905
  • Medium watercolor on board
  • Dimensions sheet: 5 1/2 × 4 1/4 in. (14 × 10.8 cm) frame: 8 × 7 × 1 1/2 in. (20.3 × 17.8 × 3.8 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Patrick Cather, Shoal Creek, Alabama, in honor of his good friend Penn Dilworth IV, Huntsville Alabama, AFI.74.2021
  • Work Type painting
  • Classification Paintings

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The work features four primary areas of color: an area of red on the right side of the paper, a small purple triangle adjacent to an irregular white space on the lower left side of the paper, a small dash of orange paint above the red area surrounded by a partial black oval, and a blue and green irregular rectangle next to a patch of peach on the left side of the paper. Each area of color is surrounded by black lines, ranging in thickness and size. The background is painted white.
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