Family (Mother and Child)

Artist Bearden, Romare (1911 - 1988)

Date1980

Dimensionsimage: 18 × 14 1/2 in. (45.7 × 36.8 cm)
sheet: 21 × 16 3/4 in. (53.3 × 42.5 cm)
frame: 27 × 23 in. (68.6 × 58.4 cm)

ClassificationsART, 2-DIMENSIONAL

Credit LineClara S. Peck Fund

Object number2021.4.1

Descriptionvertical, rectangular portrait of African-American mother and child in Neo-Expressionism style; mother seated in red chair in center, facing forward; wearing black and blue top, red apron and skirt, tan shoes, white, triangular earrings, and yellow bow on hair; proper right hand much larger than left hand; left arm and hand around African American girl, wearing blue dress and white ribbon in hair, facing left towards mother; green, grey and blue rectangular floor pattern; blue wall in background; window at upper left with landscape view; black arched door (?) in center left background.

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