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Mimi Smith

Maternity Dress, 1966

Description

Maker

  • Mimi Smith, American

Title

Maternity Dress

Year

1966

Medium

Plastic, vinyl, zipper, screws

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • wood,
  • plastic,
  • metal,
  • Vinyl

Dimensions

114.3 x 36.8 x 17.8 cm (45 x 14 1/2 x 7 inches)

Place

Western

Type

  • Sculpture

Credit

Helen M. Danforth Acquisition Fund

Object Number

2007.8

Projects & Publications

Publications

Manual / Issue 13

Storage
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Exhibition History

Exhibition History

United Histories

March 23 - August 12, 2018

These works offer contrasting perspectives on motherhood and domesticity. Pippin, a self-taught African American painter, emphasizes the spirit of simplicity in colonial-era Quaker homes. Quietly depicting a mother and her infant child, he evokes associations with what could be seen as a less complicated historical moment in American domestic life. Smith presents a dress she made for herself during a pregnancy. Maternity Dress challenges social conventions and clothing designs that conceal, rather than celebrate, the transformed physical condition of pregnant women.

[see also: 44.094]

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