Girl in Pink Dress, 1927, by acclaimed African American artist, Laura Wheeler Waring depicts a young woman in the Jazz Age style of the Harlem Renaissance. Known primarily for her landscapes and still lifes, the artist, who was born in Connecticut and studied extensively in Paris before settling in Philadelphia to teach at Cheyney University, completed striking portraits of fellow contemporaries in the New Negro Movement. This work is emblematic of Wheeler's studies of Black women of the time, defying stereotypes of race and class with depictions of Black women as sophisticated and modern — indicated here by the woman's trendy flapper-style dress and bobbed haircut. It is one of several such images that the artist produced, drawing the praise of Alain Locke, one of the New Negro Movement's intellectual founders. Wheeler also worked with another of the movement's intellectual pillars, W.E.B. Du Bois as an illustrator, contributing more than twenty cover and copy illustrations to his magazine, The Crisis.