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This monumental portrait of a claimed opera singer Marian Anderson (1944) was part of artist Laura Wheeler Waring’s Outstanding Americans of Negro Origin series, commissioned by the Harmon Foundation for an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery. Anderson had become a celebrated star of the concert stage in Europe, where Waring first saw her perform in 1916. Continue reading Modern Art Monday Presents: Portrait of Marian Anderson By Laura Wheeler Waring →