Dixon Family
Artist
Louise Crow
(American, 1891 - 1968)
Date1944
Mediumoil on canvas
DimensionsImage: 53 9/16 x 39 7/8 in. (136 x 101.3 cm)
Support: 53 9/16 x 39 7/8 in. (136 x 101.3 cm)
Frame: 61 9/16 x 47 5/8 x 1 1/2 in. (156.4 x 121 x 3.8 cm)
Support: 53 9/16 x 39 7/8 in. (136 x 101.3 cm)
Frame: 61 9/16 x 47 5/8 x 1 1/2 in. (156.4 x 121 x 3.8 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineGift of W. N. and Susan Dixon, 2013
Object number2013.37
DescriptionFour figures posed in front of a red curtain. The center figure is a dark-haired woman wearing green and with a green and pink fringed scarf. Standing at her right is a young man in black with a white collar, standing with his body in profile and his face at ¾ view; to her left is a boy wearing black with a white collar, seen in profile, holding a green apple in his left hand; on her lap is a blond baby in white clothes and white socks and shoes, its face in profile.eMuseum Notes
The artist gives this portrait of a family in Taos a Southwestern flair with a bright, Mexican scarf. Two boys in severe black and white flank their mother, their stiff poses perhaps echoing the region’s tradition of retablo painting. The mother with a baby in her lap – wearing white to suggest purity – also calls to mind the Virgin Mary and Christ, conferring spiritual protection on the family.
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