Eldzier Cortor

Day Clean

c. 1945–1946

Woman in yellow skirt holding a bucket and shading her eyes while standing on porch steps.

Woman in yellow skirt holding a bucket and shading her eyes while standing on porch steps.

On view
Floor 7

Date
c. 1945–1946

Classification
Paintings

Medium
Oil on linen

Dimensions
Overall: 35 1/8 × 30 1/8 in. (89.2 × 76.5 cm)

Accession number
2023.63

Credit line
Gift of Elizabeth Hess in memory of Dr. George Ornstein

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist's estate

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Exhibitions

The Whitney’s Collection: Selections from 1900 to 1965

June 28, 2019–May 1, 2025

Installation photography

Installation view of “Untitled” (America) (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, July 5, 2025-). From left to right: Aaron Douglas, Mural Study for Cravath Hall, Fisk University, 1929; Elsie Driggs, Pittsburgh, 1927; Joseph Stella, The Brooklyn Bridge: Variation on an Old Theme, 1939; Charles Demuth, My Egypt, 1927; Eldzier Cortor, Day Clean, c.1945–46. Photograph by Ron Amstutz

From the exhibition “Untitled” (America)

Eldzier Cortor
8 works in the collection, 3 exhibitions

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