Mother and Child

Artist Daisy Youngblood American, born 1945

Date1987

MediumLow-fire clay and wood

Dimensions16 x 5 1/2 x 4 in. (40.6 x 14 x 10.2 cm)

ClassificationsSculpture

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the William R. Roberson Jr. and Frances M. Roberson Endowed Fund for North Carolina Art, the Art Trust Endowment, and the Deal Foundation

Object number2005.16

On View

Not on view

ProvenanceCreated 1987; collection of the artist; private collection; [the artist and McKee Gallery, NY]; sold to NCMA, 2005.
Published ReferencesDaisy Youngblood: A Selection of Works 1975-2003 (exhibition catalogue) (New York: McKee Gallery, 2004), no. 7, illus. (color) unnumbered page.

Jan Riley, "New York, Daisy Youngblood, McKee Gallery," Sculpture Magazine 23, no. 10 (December 2004), briefly discussed 72.

"New Acquisitions: Sculpture, Photography and Painting," Preview: The Magazine of the North Carolina Museum of Art (March/April 2006), discussed 6, illus. (color) 7.

Linda J. Dougherty, entry for Mother and Child, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 526, illus. (color) 527.

Caroline M. Rocheleau, “Sacred Motherhood: Mother-and-Child Representations from the Permanent Collection,” in North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Summer 2014), mentioned 21.
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, McKee Gallery, "Daisy Youngblood: A Selection of Works 1975-2003," April 17-May 29, 2004, no. 7, illus. (color) unnumbered page.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “Sacred Motherhood: Mother-and-Child Representations from the Permanent Collection,” May 4–December 7, 2014. Object Rights Statement

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