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Robert Priseman (1965 –)

Robert Priseman (b.1965) is a British artist exploring dark socio-political themes like capital punishment & memory in provocative paintings. Featured in V&A, Royal Collection.

Museum of Fine Arts (Tallahassee, United States of America)

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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.”

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Title: Dovie Dean
Artist: Robert Priseman
Original dimensions: 15.0 x 18.0 cm
Copyright status: Under copyright
Where to see it: Museum of Fine Arts
Creative period: Mature Period
Keywords: ohio crime artwork , grandmother portrait , robert priseman art
Topics: crime , portrait , execution

Dovie Dean

Robert Priseman (1965 –)

Museum of Fine Arts (Tallahassee, United States of America)

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