Old Woman

Media: TexasSouthern/HCAC.TSU.0148/DSC_5622-2.jpg; TexasSouthern/HCAC.TSU.0148/DSC_5622.jpg

Original Title: Old Woman
Date: c. 1975
Creator: Rickey Donato See all items with this value
Description: Donato’s painting portrays an elderly woman feeding hungry birds. This particular geometric style of painting is characteristic of students of Dr. Biggers who attended Texas Southern in the mid-to-late 1970s. The mother-child relationship is a common motif in the artwork of TSU students, usually a human mother and child or an animal mother and child. This painting seems to be unique in its depiction of a cross-species maternal relationship.
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; Family See all items with this value
Additional Subject: Black art; Motherhood; Nature; Wildlife; Womanism
Type: Painting
Medium: oil and acrylic on masonite
Measurements: 49 1/2 in x 33 3/8 in
Format: JPEG
HBCU Identifier: pc240
HCAC Identifier: HCAC.TSU.0148
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; HBCU Black Joy: Legacy of Black Joy; Texas Southern University Collections