A portrait painting of singer and actress Ethel Waters by Luigi Lucioni from 1939. Waters stands, holding each of her elbows with her opposite hand, making her arms crossed across her waist. She wears a red sleeveless dress and stands in front of yellow curtain, looking to her right.

“Ethel Waters”

1939

  • Artist

    Luigi Lucioni
    American, born Italy, 1900 – 1988

  • Medium

    Oil on canvas

  • Dimensions

    32 × 25 inches

  • Credit Line

    Collection of the Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL. Luigi Lucioni Acquisition Fund: Cynthia and Rey Almodovar, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Williams, Sara and Robert Arthur, Bobby Bradley and Charley Burruss, Lynn and Stuart Embury, Lockheed Martin, In Memory of Audrey Rones, The Oscar Maxwell Fund, Dianne and James Reynolds, Tristenne and Paul Robin, In Honor of Jean Wessel Templeton, Mr. and Mrs. David Smith, Jean Wessel Templeton, the Boeing Company

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