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Title: Lillian Media: Oil on Canvas Size: 12" x 14"
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| Artwork by Margaret Clark |
Painting Gallery 1 Title: Lillian
Media: Oil on Canvas
Size: 12" x 14"
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| Artist's Comment: This small painting was a result of my research on my grandmother, Lillian Mitchell, who attended a U.S. Government boarding school for the forced acculturation of Native Americans. She attended the Stewart Indian School, near Carson City, Nevada, and was a member of the Walker River Paiute Tribe. She studied home economics while there, and this portrait was taken from a photo we have of her as a young woman. My son actually posed for the hand shot, he was a good sport! The iron is symbolic of the "domestic careers" the young women were trained in. Many of these young women were even sent to homes of rich white families in the Bay Area to work. This painting is in the collection of Freda Mitchell. |
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