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Portrait of a Woman in a Chair
Portrait of a Woman in a Chair is a painting by the Dutch Golden Age painter Frans Hals, painted in 1627 and now in the Art Institute of Chicago. It is considered a pendant portrait, but the sitter is unknown and therefore the pendant is not certain.
Painting.
This painting of a young woman with a diadem cap and dark bodice with gold buttons holding a glove or handkerchief, was first documented by W.R. Valentiner in 1923. He mentioned it as being in
. She then joined Mills College faculty in 1999 as an Assistant Professor of English and in 2005 became an Associate Professor of English and the Wert Chair in American Literature. In 2008, she was appointed the Aurelia Henry Reinhardt Chair in American Literature.
Work.
Mance may be best known as the creator of the portrait series 1001 Black Men, a project which took her six years to complete. She is the creator of a number of zines including "Gender Studies", "The Little Book of Big",