Francis Colburn

American
(1909–1984)

Lost Children
Date unknown

Oil on canvas
44.125 x 33.25 x 1.375 in.
Museum Permanent Collection
1984.446

• black
• brown
• child
• Children - Sources:
  - LC database, Aug. 30, 2000
• gray
• green
• grey
• house
• mauve - A delicate purple aniline dye; one of the earliest synthetic dyes. When chemist William Henry Perkin was working to create artificial quinine, he noticed a residue that became the first aniline dye (mauveine), sometimes called aniline purple.
• oil paint
• purple
• tree