Oak Bluffs

Prints and Drawings

c. 1940

Hilda Wilkinson Brown
American, 1894-1981

Hilda Wilkinson Brown, an artist and art educator, grew up and spent her entire life in Washington, D.C. She spent her summers at her family’s retreat near the Oak Bluffs area of Martha’s Vineyard. At the time, the beach depicted here was reserved for African Americans and known in code as “the inkwell.” As Brown’s niece, the artist Lillian Thomas Burwell, noted, this is an especially poignant image, “in a family sense, of Negro exclusion and reconciliation of the times.”

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Artist: Hilda Wilkinson Brown
Title: Oak Bluffs
Place: United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1935–1945
Medium: Graphite, with erasing on cream wove paper
Dimensions: 40.7 × 28 cm (16 1/16 × 11 1/16 in.)
Credit Line: Purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Hartman
Reference Number: 1997.311

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