Anna May Moaney
1930
Oil on Masonite
24” x 18”, 29 7/8” x 23 3/4” Framed
This portrait reveals a confident, beautiful woman, who, atypically for her time, possesses an inherent sense of strength and self worth in spite of her status as a domestic worker. With her self-assurance and strong outward gaze, Anna May Moaney echoes Baltimorean Gertrude Stein’s character Melanctha Herbert in her early masterpiece, Three Lives.