Henrietta Mayer, White Skin

© Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Not for reproduction or publica…
© Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Not for reproduction or publication.
Henrietta Mayer, White Skin
© Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Not for reproduction or publication.

Henrietta Mayer, White Skin

Date1913
Artist (American painter, etcher, and illustrator, 1871–1951)
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions24 × 20 in. (61 × 50.8 cm)
frame: 28 1/2 × 24 1/4 in. (72.4 × 61.6 cm)
Credit LineGift of the John Sloan Trust, 2006
Object number2006-16
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsPAINTING
Label TextMayer was a professional model and the subject of several paintings in 1913. These paintings were in large part color studies for the artist. On the stretcher of this one, he indicated the Maratta color triad of red, yellow-green, and blue.