Boy Sitting on a Log

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Original Title: title unknown
Devised Title: Boy Sitting on a Log
Date: Unknown
Creator: Kermit Oliver See all items with this value
Description: Oliver’s painting depicts a young boy sitting on the stump of a tree. The boy is barefoot and wearing a contemplative expression on his face. Oliver’s style in this painting is very free-form, with quick and abrupt brushstrokes throughout the composition. Oliver is one of the most successful art graduates from TSU, going on to be the only North American artist to design scarves for the fashion house Hermes.
Primary Subject: 1900-1999 See all items with this value; Art See all items with this value; HBCU student work See all items with this value; Recreation See all items with this value
Additional Subject: Black art; Meditations; Memory; Nature
Type: Painting
Medium: paint on panel
Measurements: 29 5/6 in x 25 3/4 in
Format: JPEG
HBCU Identifier: pc217
HCAC Identifier: HCAC.TSU.0126
Rights: All rights held by the University Museum at Texas Southern. For permission to publish, distribute, or use this image for any other purpose, please contact University Museum, Texas Southern University umuseum@gmail.com Attn: Museum Director. Materials not created by Texas Southern University may still be under copyright. Additional materials may be presented for educational and research purposes in accordance with fair use under United States copyright law.
Contributing Institution: Texas Southern University
Collection: Permanent Collection See all items with this value

Item sets: Art; Texas Southern University Collections; University Museum at Texas Southern Permanent Collection