Dovie Dean
Contemporary Realism
15.0 x 18.0 cm
Musée des Beaux-Arts
Robert Priseman (1965 –)
Robert Priseman (né en 1965) est un artiste britannique explorant des thèmes socio-politiques sombres tels que la peine de mort et la mémoire à travers des peintures provocantes. Présent au V&A, à la Collection Royale.
Musée des Beaux-Arts (Tallahassee, États-Unis)
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Blanche “Dovie” Dean was a 55-year-old grandmother and mother of six children, who lived in Clermont County, Ohio.She admitted to killing her 69-year-old husband, Hawkins Dean, after she put rat poison in his milk. Dean had originally tried to frame her son by a previous marriage for the murder, but eventually confessed when the sheriff commented that “any woman who could accuse her son of such a crime could easily have done it herself.” Dean said the murder took place after a number of violent arguments with her new husband Hawkins (her third), who she felt could not “perform his husbandly duties.” Dean said: “He wanted a housekeeper and I wanted a home.”On the 15th January 1954, Dovie Dean was executed in Ohio’s electric chair wearing a “simple green dress buttoned down the front, white anklets and brown shoes.”
À propos de cette œuvre
- Titre: Dovie Dean
- Artiste: Robert Priseman
- Dimensions originales: 15.0 x 18.0 cm
- Statut du droit d'auteur: Sous droit d'auteur
- Lieu d'exposition: Musée des Beaux-Arts
- Date de création: Mature Period
- Mots-clés: ohio crime artwork , grandmother portrait , robert priseman art
- Thématiques: crime , portrait , execution