Painting [realia] : Matriarch 2. 1946.

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Painting [realia] : Matriarch 2. 1946.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/432288928

Oil on canvas portrait, titled "Matriarch 2," depicts Mrs. Coleman of Columbus, Ohio. The painting shows an African-American woman wearing a blue button-down dress with short sleeves and a collar. A cross on a chain is around her neck. She is seated in a green wooden chair in front of a wooden door with a grained reddish handle. Her hands are at her chest, around the chain of the cross. Her skin is dark, her hair is gray and black and her eyes are dark brown. Many details can be seen in the portrait, including the wrinkles of her skin, the veins in her arms and neck, and the fraying fabric of her dress. Emerson C. Burkhart painted this portrait and dated it August 3, 1946. The portrait is framed.

1 item : brown, blue, red, green, white, gray, black ; 76.3 cm x 91.5 cm.

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Burkhart, Emerson, 1905-1969

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For this painting titled "Mrs. Coleman" or "Matriarch," Emerson Burkhart used a style he referred to as"tactile realism." He wanted to make the viewer tactilely feel the object in the painting. To achieve this effect, he used paint liberally to create excruciating detail. This style of painting took a great deal of time. This portrait took sixteen day-long sittings to complete. Burkhart met Mrs. Coleman while painting a portrait of her son, Oscar. He spent a month getting to know th...