Mammy Complex: Unfit Mommies Make for Fit Nannies

Title

Mammy Complex: Unfit Mommies Make for Fit Nannies

Date

2011

Medium

digital media and color woodcut reduction print on Coventry linen rag

Edition

ed. 2/6

Height

60 in.

Width

40 in.

Classification

Thematic Collection

Commentary

Write-up by Alex Trousilek (Class of 2021)

Credit Line

Purchased for the Union College Permanent Collection from the Jonathan Ferrara Gallery in 2016

Object Number

2016.7.2

Copyright

© Katrina Andry

Alternative text

A composition of a woman, seen to the right, wearing a green smock-like apron with a red-painted face holding/carrying two babies; one in her arms and the second sitting on her bottom which is exaggerated and protruding. A second woman, that appears to the left, holds a briefcase and leans over the baby held in the first woman's arms, seemingly to be kissing the baby. There is a quilt-like, patterned image behind them.

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