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Pushing Up the Daisies
Artist
Elizabeth Layton
(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 viewThis 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
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
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