Untitled (brooch)
Untitled (brooch)
Artist
Joyce Scott
(American, Born 1948)
Date1988
Dimensions4 1/8 × 2 3/8 × 1/2 in. (10.5 × 6 × 1.3 cm)
Mediumseed beads, wire, thread
ClassificationJewelry
Credit LineGift of Dorothy Saxe
Object number
2022.17
Not on View
DescriptionFigure of a woman standing with one arm at her side and one raised, held near her head. Woman has brown-gold hair and bright red lips. She has a white body and gold and brown beads are used to create an outline for her breasts, belly, navel, vagina and the line that demarcates a separation between her legs.
Comparative ReferencesSee also Schneider, Gary, Lowery Stokes Sims et al., Joyce J. Scott: Harriet Tubman and Other Truths, Grounds For Sculpture, 2018, pp. 33, 124, 177.
late 19th-early 20th century
Late 16th-13th century BCE
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