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The Distaff Side
The Distaff Side
The Distaff Side

The Distaff Side

Artist (born Paris, France, 1898; died Honolulu, Hawaii, 1979)
Date1951
MediumLithograph on paper
DimensionsImage Overall: 9 3/4 × 13 1/2 in. (24.8 × 34.3 cm)
Sheet Overall: 12 3/4 × 17 in. (32.4 × 43.2 cm)
Mat Overall: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
ClassificationsPrint
Credit LineCarolyn Schneider Collection, Gift of Col. and Mrs. A. H. Hooker
Terms
  • figurative
  • Lithograph
Object number1970.126.5
DescriptionA group of women in the process of making tortillas. The woman at front left with a baby on her back is grinding corn. Two women behind her are flattening out tortillas. The woman in back at the right is stirring something in a vessel on top of an oven. A child and curled up dog are by the oven in the lower right.
On View
Not on view
Tortilleras
Jean Charlot
circa 1947
Mexican Kitchen
Jean Charlot
circa 1947
Circular Form
Jean Charlot
date unknown
First Steps
Jean Charlot
circa 1946
Procession at Chalma
Jean Charlot
circa 1948
Grinding Corn
Eduardo Kingman
1947
El Maiz
Leopoldo Méndez
1945
Tropical Wash Day
J. Jay McVicker
1946
Autumn Dawn
N. C. Wyeth
1915
Water Element
Utagawa Kunihisa
1864
Autumn Bounty
Oscar E. Berninghaus
circa 1945
Where?
Emilio Amero
circa 1950