Hawthorne School Student Drawing

Name/Title

Hawthorne School Student Drawing

Entry/Object ID

2017.87

Scope and Content

A colored crayon drawing of a classroom. The teacher, labeled Mrs. Clarke, stands in the center of the classroom in front of the blackboard mounted to the wall. One student stands before her. The drawing is signed Ellen. Dated 1984.

Lexicon

Search Terms

Hawthorne School

Exhibitions

Exhibition

Labor of Love: Creating Art and Community

Notes

Not only is this a piece created in an elementary school class, but it is a depiction of the very same class in which it was created to be opened by Ellen twenty years later to remember this moment. Mrs. Clarke, the art teacher at Hawthorne Elementary School is pictured standing at the front of the classroom. The artist, Ellen’s, perspective shines through with the scale used and choice of clothing and classroom decorations drawn.