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Virginia Entertains a Stranger
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Virginia Entertains a Stranger
Artist
Lou Stoumen
(1917 - 1991)
Date
1981
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image Size: 9 7/8 × 6 5/8 in. (25.1 × 16.8 cm)
Credit Line
Anonymous gift
Object number
2020.12.91
On View
Not on view
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Wright Morris lecturing
Lou Stoumen
ca. 1980
Women with folding chairs on curb
Lou Stoumen
1970s
Women seated on grass with bicycles
Lou Stoumen
1970s
Three dollars a square foot is the average price of these hooked rugs, proudly displayed by an Acadian woman. The price is no measure of the long tiresome homework involved in their manufacture. “Hooked” rugs, an old Nova Scotian handicraft, are made with a hooklike crocheting needle
Lou Stoumen
ca. 1939
Danger
Lou Stoumen
1991
Like England and like the United States, Nova Scotia is a melting pot of races. Here a Scotch soldier on leave visits Peggy’s Cove. Canada still resists conscription for overseas, its expeditionary force is volunteer. In Nova Scotia are English, French, German, Scotch, Welsh, Irish, Mic Mac Indians and the descendants of British slaves
Lou Stoumen
1939
Man leaning on railing at beach
Lou Stoumen
n.d.
Truck Behind Road
Lou Stoumen
1981
Fisher Girl, Nova Scotia, Canada
Lou Stoumen
1940
Children on blanket
Lou Stoumen
1970s
Venice Beach
Lou Stoumen
ca. 1967
Portrait of Man Speaking
Lou Stoumen
ca. 1980
