Dovie Dean

Robert Priseman (1965 –)

Robert Priseman (nacido en 1965) es un artista británico que explora temas socio-políticos oscuros como la pena de muerte y la memoria a través de pinturas provocadoras. Ha sido destacado en el V&A, la Colección Real.

Museo de las Artes Fina (Tallahassee, Estados Unidos de América)

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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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Sobre esta obra

Título: Dovie Dean
Artista: Robert Priseman
Dimensiones originales: 15.0 x 18.0 cm
Formato: Portrait
Estado de derechos de autor: Protegido por derechos de autor
Dónde verla: Museo de las Artes Fina
Periodo de creación: Mature Period
Contexto del corpus: social commentary on crime , priseman's dark realism focus
Color principal: Gray
Palabras clave: ohio crime artwork , grandmother portrait , robert priseman art