Ellen Kuhn 1937-2013
The Seamstress
photolithograph on paper
85.5 x 65
and dated (lower right): Ellen Kuhn '87
1997-5
@Ellen Kuhn
Photo: Bridgeman images
The Seamstress references the Schmatte (garment or rag trade) associated with successive waves of immigrants to the East End including Jewish tailors and seamstresses, before them the Huguenot weavers, and...
The Seamstress references the Schmatte (garment or rag trade) associated with successive waves of immigrants to the East End including Jewish tailors and seamstresses, before them the Huguenot weavers, and later the Bangladeshi garment industry. The artist did not reside in the East End but is known to have made work on social issues in the 1960s.
