Finger-Paint on Finger-Paint Paper, 1981

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Cara Perlman, Juanita, finger-paint on finger-paint paper, 1981
16 x 20 in.

Juanita came to Tin Pan Alley to visit her boyfriend who was a Tin Pan Alley regular. She lived in East Harlem.

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Juanita

Juanita in profile.

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Perlman’s portraits, executed with a painting method typically used by children, fit broadly into the 1980s wave of neo-expressionism but they go way beyond that context.