Scrub Woman

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Original Title: Scrub Woman
Date: 1976
Creator: Adrienne Rison-Ison See all items with this value
Description: Rison-Isom’s print depicts a woman kneeling to clean wooden floors with a scrubber and bucket. The room appears worn and cracked, indicating age and heavy use. This work highlights the importance of Black women’s labor, which has too often been neglected. In the 19th and 20th centuries, huge numbers of Black women worked as domestic laborers.
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; Labor See all items with this value
Additional Subject: Black art; Black Feminism; Domestic labor; Womanism
Type: Print
Medium: ink on paper
Additional Techniques: lithography
Measurements: 19 in x 25 in
Format: JPEG
HBCU Identifier: pc200
HCAC Identifier: HCAC.TSU.0109
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Contributing Institution: Texas Southern University
Collection: Permanent Collection See all items with this value

Item sets: Art; Texas Southern University Collections