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
Collection of DePaul Art Museum, Gift of Dick and Jan Hamilton
Made/Created
Artist
Pitchford-Jolly, Marva Lee
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)
