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William Aiken Walker (1838-1921)
Youth with Basket on his Head, Cuba
signed with conjoined initials and dated 'WAWalker. 1869.' (lower left)
oil on board
10 x 6½ in. (25.4 x 16.5 cm.)
Painted in 1869.
Literature
A.P. Trovaioli, R.B. Toledano, William Aiken Walker: Southern Genre Painter, 1st ed., Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1972, pp. 32, 33, fig. 5, illustrated (as Negro Youth with Basket on Head, Cuba).
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