Body Art: Marks of Identity | November 20, 1999 to May 29, 2000
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Edith Burchett
Photo from the collection of Lyle Tuttle

 

This painting features Edith Burchett, the wife of the famous English shop tattooist George Burchett. Edith Burchett agreed to allow her husband to tattoo her in 1913 and then paint her portrait.

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