Head of a Woman
12"x11”
Charcoal and watercolor on paper, c. 1935
Arnautoff was a Russian-American painter and professor of art who worked in San Francisco and the Bay Area. Mentored by Diego Rivera, Arnautoff was a prolific muralist in the 1930s and is known for his controversial depiction of the Life of Washington in a San Francisco high school which included images of slaves and a dead native American. The murals have been at the center of legal maneuverings as some seek to destroy them.
(All sizes are approximate and exclude frame, where applicable.)

