Time in Paris, 1932, a close study of the face and features of a Black woman, was created by acclaimed African American artist and Harlem Renaissance figure, Laura Wheeler Waring. Known primarily for her landscape and still life paintings, 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. Among her most noted capture the images of James Weldon Johnson, Mahalia Jackson and W.E.B. Du Bois among several others. She also worked with Du Bois as an illustrator, contributing more than twenty cover and copy illustrations to his magazine, The Crisis. Contrasting her realist portraits, 10 of which reside in the collections of the Smithsonian, Wheeler was known for her impressionist creations, which frequently explored the beauty of flowers and nature.