Portia in a Pink Blouse  1942

Gallery label: [br]Portia’s fashionable hat, with its veil stretched tightly over her face and head, is in keeping with Du Bois’s tendency to reduce human forms to a few simplified shapes. The sitter is dressed in a style that suggests high social standing. Du Bois was an art critic as well as an artist. His paintings and writings were consistently in opposition to the Mod...