Pagan Princess, Nigeria
Date1938
Artist
Cyrus Leroy Baldridge
(American painter, designer, and illustrator, 1899–1976)
MediumDrypoint
Dimensionsplate: 10 7/8 × 8 5/16 in. (27.6 × 21.1 cm)
sheet: 15 1/2 × 11 13/16 in. (39.4 × 30 cm)
sheet: 15 1/2 × 11 13/16 in. (39.4 × 30 cm)
Credit LineGift of Dr. Charles Lee Reese, 1940
Object number1940-11.17
On View
Not on viewClassificationsPRINT
Label TextFor 19 months Baldridge traveled through Africa with his wife, the writer Caroline Singer. The two chronicled their experience in the 1929 book White Africa and Black and in various sketches and prints, many of which were donated to Fisk University.
