several white flowers with wide petals, and thin white filaments with orange tips; long broad green leaves behind flowers, with a dark blue background

%C2%A9 Shirley Russell

White Ginger, c. 1936

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Gift of Marla J. Kinneyexpand_more  2019.39.4

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White Ginger is one of several tropical flower prints Shirley Russell created in collaboration with Japanese publisher Watanabe Shōzaburō. The fragrant white ginger grew like a weed in Honolulu, Hawaii, where Russell lived for 60 years, supporting herself as a high school art teacher. According to Japanese printmaking tradition, a separate carver and printer executed this woodcut after Russell’s design.

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Title
White Ginger
Artist Life
1886–1985
Role
Artist
Accession Number
2019.39.4
Provenance
[Steven Thomas, Woodstock Vt., until 2017, sold to Kinney]; Marla J. Kinney, Minneapolis; given to MIA, 2019.
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several white flowers with wide petals, and thin white filaments with orange tips; long broad green leaves behind flowers, with a dark blue background

© Shirley Russell

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