Mending Socks
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"Mending Socks" is a genre painting by African American artist Archibald Motley that depicts an intimate domestic scene, reflecting his focus on everyday Black life and culture.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Mending Socks canonical | 1 |
Statements (29)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
genre painting
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painting ⓘ |
| artForm | oil painting ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| creator | Archibald Motley ⓘ |
| creatorEthnicity | African American ⓘ |
| creatorGender | male ⓘ |
| creatorName |
Archibald Motley
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surface form:
Archibald John Motley Jr.
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| culture | African American culture ⓘ |
| depicts |
African American domestic interior
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everyday Black life ⓘ intimate domestic scene ⓘ |
| depictsEthnicGroup |
Black Americans
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surface form:
African Americans
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| genre | genre painting ⓘ |
| hasTheme |
Black domestic life
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everyday life ⓘ family and home ⓘ intimacy ⓘ ordinary moments ⓘ |
| influencedBy | everyday life of Chicago’s Black community ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | English ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
African American woman mending socks
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domestic labor ⓘ |
| movement |
African American modernism
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Harlem Renaissance era art ⓘ |
| partOf |
Archibald Motley
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surface form:
Archibald Motley oeuvre
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| subjectOf | African American art scholarship ⓘ |
| visualStyle |
genre realism
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realism ⓘ |
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.