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Four Friends

Laura Wheeler Waring, 1940
Four Friends, Laura Wheeler Waring
Four Friends, zoomed in
63.5 cmFour Friends scale comparison76.2 cm

Four Friends is a Harlem Renaissance Oil on Canvas Painting created by Laura Wheeler Waring in c.1940. It lives at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in the United States. The image is used according to Educational Fair Use, and tagged Black Subjects and Children. SourceSee Four Friends in the Kaleidoscope

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