Woman in Green Sweater

About the Art

A young woman, at the edge of the composition, stands alone before a barren landscape. She is confined by the jagged piers, which serve as ominous physical and emotional barriers that lay between her and the region beyond. She turns towards the viewer, away from the remote landscape and the psychic separation it suggests.

Smith's paintings often reflect the isolation felt among African Americans within mainstream American culture in the years following World War II.

FEATURED IMAGE
Hughie Lee Smith (American, 1915–1999), Woman in Green Sweater, about 1957, oil on canvas, 18 x 24 inches (45.7 x 61 cm). Museum purchase with funds provided by the 2002 Associate Board Art Ball, 2002.34