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Carriage Boot

Doris Beer

National Gallery of Art

The image shows a single shoe with a textured gray surface and brown trim along the opening. Above the shoe, there are smaller outline sketches of the shoe's parts in thin lines. The color palette consists mainly of muted tones, including shades of gray, brown, and beige. The shoe is positioned in the bottom right quadrant of the image, displayed in a side view facing towards the left, while the outline sketches are placed in the upper left-hand corner.

Artwork Details

Date
c. 1936
Medium
watercolor, graphite, and heightening on paperboard
Dimensions
3220 × 3649 px
Public Domain
Yes
Museum Record
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