Preview
Switch to Print
Skicka
Dela
Ladda ner
Liknande objekt
Röntgen
BildspelCorrine Skyes
15.0 x 18.0 cm
Museum of Fine Arts
Robert Priseman (1965 –)
Robert Priseman (f. 1965) är en brittisk konstnär som utforskar mörka socio-politiska teman som dödsstraff och minne i provokativa målningar. Visas på V&A, Royal Collection.
Museum of Fine Arts (Tallahassee, United States of America)
Discover diverse art collections at Tallahassee's Museum of Fine Arts! Explore rotating exhibitions, educational programs & Florida State University's MoFA. A cultural gem for art lovers in the USA.
Corrine Sykes was a 20-year-old illiterate black housemaid who stabbed her employer, Freda Woodlinger, to death on the 7th December 1944.Mrs Woodlinger had hired Corrine three days before the murder. Sykes had given a false name and references to hide the fact that she’d just been released from prison having served 11 months for the theft of jewelery. On trial Sykes claimed that her boyfriend, J.C. Kelly, had threatened to kill her and her mother if she did not steal for him. Doubts were raised as to whether the slight Sykes would have had the physical strength to inflict the stab wounds on her employer. Other doubts were also raised about her delicately balanced mental state. The all-white jury weren’t convinced and convicted her of first-degree murder.Corrine Sykes was electrocuted on the 14th October 1946 at the Rockview Penitentiary in Belefonte.
Om detta konstverk
- Titel: Corrine Skyes
- Konstnär: Robert Priseman
- Ursprungliga mått: 15.0 x 18.0 cm
- Format: Portrait
- Upphovsrättslig status: Upphovsrättsskyddat
- Plats för visning: Museum of Fine Arts
- Dominerande färg: Putty
- Färgintensitet: Monochromatic
QR-kod
