AA-2026-5C28EC
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A woman with grey-curled hair sits wedged into a garden corner with a sketch board on her lap and a pencil raised to her chin, occupying the precise posture of someone who has decided that thinking counts as progress. Her wide-brimmed sun hat has been hung on a branch behind her rather than worn, which is the move of a person who planned carefully for the sun and then found the shade more interesting. Plein-air sketching was in the 1950s the respectable hobby of women who had read enough about Impressionism to believe that sitting outdoors with art materials was a morally improving use of an afternoon, and the sketch board, the considered pose, and the background of wild yellow flowers all confirm someone taking her leisure with the full seriousness the era demanded. She is not quite looking at whatever she came here to draw — she is looking at something else entirely, which is probably why the sketch is not finished.
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Woman Sketching Outdoors, Garden Setting, 1950s. 1950–1959. Archive & Atlas, Historical Image Library, AA-2026-5C28EC. https://thearchive.archiveandatlas.com/library/woman-sketching-outdoors-garden-setting-1950s.
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title = {Woman Sketching Outdoors, Garden Setting, 1950s},
year = {1950–1959},
howpublished = {Archive \& Atlas, Historical Image Library},
note = {Accession AA-2026-5C28EC},
url = {https://thearchive.archiveandatlas.com/library/woman-sketching-outdoors-garden-setting-1950s}
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