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  • Painted Face

    Front facing head with several paints used on the plaster. The combination of paint colors almost looks like camouflage. Face has inset eyes, protruding forehead and very detailed nose and lips.
  • Face of a Woman

    Frontal face of a woman, tilted slightly to the right. Eyes are closed. Wearing a head scarf
  • Head of a Young Man

    Head and neck of a young man. Subject has a narrow face, wavy hair, and is facing forward. The head and neck are mounted on top of a cubic shaped block which is about the same width as that of the head and this mounting has the head slightly leaning forward. Because of this leaning, the subject appears to be gazing more down than forward. The are painted brown with greenish patina. The base block is black paint and has a distinct depression, in the shape of a vertical rectangle, of 7.5X1.5X0.1 (HxWxD)
  • Head of a Man

    Formal bust of older man wearing collared shirt and some sort of robe or cowl around neck; bust rests on square pedestal; plasticene work rests on wooden base.
  • Shrouded Head, Looking Upward

    Head of a woman with draped shroud on head; figure is looking upward. Figure is made out of metal and has a dark black-bronze coloring.
  • Shrouded Head, Looking Down

    Head of a woman with draped shroud on head; figure is looking downward. Head is made with small 'dollops' of clay spread and scrapped outwards.
  • Small Head of a Veiled Woman

    Bust (from chest to top of head) of female in draped head piece; figure is leaning to the subject's right with head facing slightly downward. Figure is all white.
  • Head of a Woman

    Bust of woman with shoulder length hair and v-neck top.
  • Head of a Woman

    Grey plasticine bust of a woman with wavy, shoulder length hair. Woman has a large head, straight nose, and a slightly opened mouth, looking straight out. She is on a wooden plastform. There is a string from her head and draping across in front of her chest.
  • Head of a Woman

    Sculpture of a woman's head/face, front facing, wearing a tight fitting scarf over her head. Eyes are deep set, nose prominent, and lips separated into an emotionless expression. Face is very detailed with eyebrows, eyelashes, and pupils of the eyes deeply carved.
  • Woman Reading

    Woman from waist up, head tilted forward reading book with forearms resting on book. Elbow length sleeves and left facing hand has thumb on top of book and other fingers in pages.
  • Storytime

    Woman seated holding an open book with one child looking over her shoulder and holding on to her other shoulder; child sitting on floor right facing side holding a ball; child on left facing side leaning on woman's knee. Woman's ankles are crossed and there is drapery down both sides of the piece. Woman has elbow length sleeves and over the knee attire.
  • The Song of the Swan

    Female head with long neck, facing to the right and having curly hair on a flared pedestal. Done in white plaster. Pedestal is as tall as the woman's neck and head.
  • Head of a Woman (Danforth 2006.345)

    Head and shoulders of a woman with shoulder length veil. Done in a very dark brown clay. Woman is looking up slightly to the left. Nose is slightly indented at the tip.
  • Bust of Joan Baez

    Head of a young woman facing forward. Shoulder length straight hair, parted in the middle. The head and neck are placed on a base of similar size though the bottom of the base is extended forward. "#87" is written in pencil on the back and on the bottom, in pencil, is "JOAN BY" followed by 3 characters, possibly "EZZ" or "E22"
  • Ethiopia Awakening

    Upright female figure wearing blue headdress, short-sleeved top. Lower body is wrapped as a mummy would be. Figure's left arm is at side, with hand extended. Right hand holds end of mummy wrappings against figure's chest.
  • Portrait Bust of Doris

    Portrait bust of young woman resting on a squared base. Base painted black, bust metallic gold.
  • Self-Portrait

    Bust of woman with short hair adorned with scarf around top of head and tied at back. Head is turned slightly to the figure's left. Figure's right shoulder appears to be covered; right shoulder is bare.
  • Veiled Future

    Tall, slender, robed figure holding bronze-colored orb. Upper body is turned to its right and orb is balanced against left hip. Figure is painted gold in its entirety. Base is painted black.
  • Adoration

    Kneeling robed female embracing young nude standing child.
  • Portrait Bust of a Child (Solomon Fuller, Jr.)

    Bust of young boy, from mid-chest up on rectangular base.
  • Emancipation (Maquette for Spirit of Emancipation)

    Three figures standing against what looks like a tree that has a large hand at the top grasping each of their heads. Figures are very roughly sculpted. One is male and the other female. The third figure is female (Humanity) and has her arm on the shoulder of the male. Overall sculpture is abstract.
  • Lowney's Cook Book Illustrated Revised Edition

    Early Twentieth Century cookbook, illustrated and revised edition
  • Stoughton Cookbook

    Late nineteenth century cookbook compiled by Ladies Aid Society of the Congregational Church of Stoughton, Massachusetts
  • Inspiration (Spirit, Mind, Body)

    in Robert Thomas Kerlin (1866-1950), Negro Poets and their Poems. Washington, DC: Associated Publishers, 1923