Pagan Princess, Nigeria

Cyrus Baldridge

Baldridge spent much of the 1920s and early 1930s traveling with his companion Caroline Singer throughout continental Africa, as well as China and Japan. They stayed with tribespeople in the Sierra Leone and along the route to Ethiopia, Baldridge sketching the people he encountered and the landscapes they saw as they went. It wasn’t until their return to the U.S., after months of learning woodcut printmaking under Watanabe in Japan, that Baldridge began exploring printmaking, at which point he referenced his sketches from their many adventures, including “Pagan Princess”.