[Title unknown], part of Mud People series

Name/Title

[Title unknown], part of Mud People series

Entry/Object ID

2021.10

Description

Mostly white with black ceramic sculpture of a limbless torso or body with mask-like face.

Artwork Details

Medium

Ceramic

Context

Pitchford-Jolly’s Mud Peoples series (which was also the name of her studio space in Chicago), was developed out of her playing with Mississippi mud as a child and later making conceptual linkages between the people of the South, her ancestors, and the land. As the artist once described of telling the stories of her ancestors, “we are all connected to something important. I put scraps together to make a voice. You know, we’re not whole people. We’re really scraps put together.”

Acquisition

Accession

2021.06-13

Source or Donor

Dick Hamilton, Jan Hamilton

Acquisition Method

Gift

Credit Line

Gift of Dick and Jan Hamilton

Made/Created

Artist

Marva Lee Pitchford-Jolly

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Sculpture

Nomenclature Class

Art

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Getty AAT

Concept

sculpture (visual works), visual works (works)

Hierarchy Name

Visual Works (hierarchy name), Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name)

Facet

Objects Facet

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Sculpture

Dimensions

Height

21 in

Width

5-1/2 in

Depth

4 in