Garibaldi Being Cleaned (Primary Title)
Workers Cleaning Monument (Alternate Title)

Elizabeth Nottingham, American, 1907 - 1956 (Artist)

1935
American
painting on canvas
Framed: 18 × 21 7/8 × 1 5/8 in. (45.72 × 55.56 × 4.13 cm)
Unframed: 15 5/8 × 11 7/8 in. (39.69 × 30.16 cm)
2014.376
Not on view
 An important Virginia painter, Elizabeth Nottingham was involved as an artist and administrator for several New Deal arts organizations throughout the 1930s. These federally sponsored programs employed artists to create works for public spaces and exhibitions with a keen interest in subjects of contemporary American life. Though she more often took the rural Virginia countryside as the subject of her paintings, Cleaning Garibaldi reflects her training at the Art Students League in New York City, where she was encouraged to depict the everyday scenes of urban life. Several workmen clean a statue of the Italian republican revolutionary Giuseppe Garibaldi in Washington Square Park, a preferred site for people-watching that was repeatedly depicted in the work of Nottingham’s teacher John Sloan
Modern; Regionalism
Signed "M. E. Notthingham, 1935".
Gift of H. Talmage Day
Exhibited at the Richmond Academy of Arts in 1935.
©artist or artist’s estate

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