Beulah's Baby

• This is an oil portrait of a mother and daughter that includes a still life of objects on a small table. 
• The painting was created during racial segregation in America. 
• The woman depicted as “Beulah” was a college student from Greensboro, whose real name was Evelyn Leaverson Davis. The young girl was not her child. She was the daughter of a family friend.
• The artist, Primrose McPherson Paschal, was a white woman who grew up in North Carolina.

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