Mother and Son
Roland Dorcely, Haitian, 1930 - 2017
before 1957
Tempera on composition board
Overall: 48 3/8 × 32 3/16 in. (122.9 × 81.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Diana J. and Professor Emeritus H. Wentworth Eldredge, Class of 1931
P.984.39.3
Geography
Place Made: Haiti, Caribbean, Central America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Painting
Research Area
Painting
Americas
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, lower right: R. Dorc (signature appears to have been cut off); on reverse, in black crayon: #101 MOTHER AND SON
Course History
ANTH 50, AAAS 88, LACS 50, Haiti at the Crossroads, Chelsey Kivland, Spring 2013
ANTH 50.4, AAAS 88.5, LACS 50.2, Race, Power, and Development in Global Haiti, Chelsey Kivland, Fall 2013
ANTH 7, Haiti and Its Visitors, Chelsey Kivland, Winter 2019
Publication History
Dean, Stephanie. "The Mother's Voice", A Video Tape Presentation for partial requirement of MALS Degree, Dartmouth College
Brian P. Kennedy and Emily Shubert Burke, Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2009 p.27, no.5.
Provenance
Diana Joan Younger Eldredge (1919-1999) and H. Wentworth Eldredge (1909-1991), Norwich, Vermont; given to present collection, 1984.
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