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Elizabeth Layton, Pushing Up the Daisies, 1978, colored pencil and graphite, 28 x 22 in., Kansa…
Pushing Up the Daisies
Elizabeth Layton, Pushing Up the Daisies, 1978, colored pencil and graphite, 28 x 22 in., Kansas State University, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, gift of the Lawrence Arts Center, 2014.453

Pushing Up the Daisies

Artist (United States, 1909 - 1993)
Date1978
MediumColored pencil and graphite on paper
DimensionsIMAGE/SHEET: 28 x 22 in. (711.2 x 558.8 mm)
Object TypeDrawings
Credit LineKSU, Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art, gift of Lawrence Arts Center
Object number2014.453
On View
Not on view
Description
This is my grave … it doesn’t make any difference after you’re [dead] what color your skin is … so I drew my skin … black … people of other colored skin have the same feelings. I think we all have the same feelings.

This is my gravestone … some child has pulled some daisies and laid them there on the grave. See, she’s winking … she knows what’s after this world. It’s a hopeful picture. (1984
Exhibitions
Elizabeth Layton, Hunger, 1985, colored pencil with graphite, 30 x 22 1/4 in., Kansas State Uni…
Elizabeth Layton
1985
1999.17
Elizabeth Layton, Masks, 1978, colored pencil and graphite, 28 x 22 in., Kansas State Universit…
Elizabeth Layton
1978
2014.455
Untitled
Elizabeth Layton
1991
1991.4
Elizabeth Layton, Saluting the Flag, 1984, colored pencil and graphite, 14 9/16 x 12 7/8 in., K…
Elizabeth Layton
1984
1997.6
Elizabeth Layton, Orchid III, February 14, 1984, colored pencil and graphite, 9 3/4 x 15 1/2 in…
Elizabeth Layton
February 14, 1984
2020.29
Christmas Eve
Elizabeth Layton
1977
2014.448
Elizabeth Layton, Genocide of the American Indian, 1986, colored pencil and graphite, 28 x 22 i…
Elizabeth Layton
1986
2014.449
Untitled (white daisies in blue pot)
Undetermined
ca. 1925
2006.318
Elizabeth Layton, Censored, 1989, lithograph with hand coloring (colored pencil), 29 7/8 x 22 1…
Elizabeth Layton
1989
1990.2
Susan H. Minteer, Daisies in a Blue Pot, 2002, photomechanical reproduction, 4 x 5 13/16 in., K…
Susan H. Minteer
2002
CM23g.2023
Title unknown (still life with poppies and daisies)
Leonard Woodruff
20th century
2017.473
Geraniums
Elizabeth Layton
1985
1995.24