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Karl Priebe

Miss Chalfont

1947
Casein on cardboard
30.5 × 32.1 cm (12 × 12.6 in)

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The Milwaukee-born artist Karl Priebe often combined aspects of fantasy with his love of birding and depictions of African Americans. Here, a female figure holds a delicate wire on which two birds balance. Behind her is an eerie, moonlit landscape marked only by leafless trees and a smattering of rocky mountain peaks. Priebe, a white artist, lived in Chicago and was drawn to the city's African American community, where he befriended musicians and other artists who became subjects of his paintings.

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