Five Laundresses

The five paintings you see here--which I consider a single work of art--were inspired by a tiny photograph encountered in the side margin of a book about the French Impressionists. "Laundresses in Paris, c. 1870" was the only description given.

From that simple inspiration, the brush quickly took over as I watched "Five Laundresses" emerge as a single work on five different canvases.

--Don Haggerty

Five Laundresses
Oil on canvas
Five canvases--each 24" x 18"

Five Laundresses--#1
Oil on canvas
24" x 18"

Five Laundresses--#2
Oil on canvas
24" x 18"

Five Laundresses--#3
Oil on canvas
24" x 18"

Five Laundresses--#4
Oil on canvas
24" x 18"

Five Laundresses--#5
Oil on canvas
24" x 18"

Five Laundresses--#5 (detail)
Oil on canvas

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