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Woman Nursing Child
Woman Nursing Child

Woman Nursing Child

Artist Maurice Sterne American, born Latvia, 1878–1957
Datecirca 1917–18
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensionsoverall: 26 1/4 × 21 5/8 in. (66.7 × 54.9 cm)
frame: 30 3/8 × 25 3/8 × 1 3/8 in. (77.2 × 64.5 × 3.5 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift of the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. Phifer Bequest)
Object numberG.28.2.75
On View
On view
ProvenanceCreated United States; collection of the artist. Robert Fulenwider Phifer (1849–1928), New York and Concord, NC; bequeathed to the NC State Art Society, Raleigh, NC, 1928; officially transferred by the Society to the NCMA, 1961.
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