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An American Pulse:
Portraits

The Black Hat
The Black Hat, 1921
Edition of 55
Mason 113; Bellows 160
Museum purchase, 1997:31
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Bellows depicted all the women in his family-his wife and both daughters, Anne and Jean-in a black hat. Here, he shows Emma, hands folded in her lap, calm and capable, if not as elegantly portrayed as in some other lithographs.