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Painted glass drawing of a pre-Columbian goddess figure wearing traditional dress and with hands at the bottom center. The paint is brown and black with a veneer of green that comes from the wall behind the glass. Osa made a series of different goddesses of color. Each figure shared an outline, but had a different skin tone representative of the range of ethnicities (red, brown, yellow, and brown). She gave them to different significant people in her life (Angela Davis, and others)
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Title:
Painted glass figure
Creator:
Osa Hidalgo de la Riva
Date Created:
1980s
Description:
Painted glass drawing of a pre-Columbian goddess figure wearing traditional dress and with hands at the bottom center. The paint is brown and black with a veneer of green that comes from the wall behind the glass. Osa made a series of different goddesses of color. Each figure shared an outline, but had a different skin tone representative of the range of ethnicities (red, brown, yellow, and brown). She gave them to different significant people in her life (Angela Davis, and others)
Subjects:
de la Riva Family Archive Chicano california Mexican American Gay Queer Lesbian Osa Hidalgo de la Riva pre-Columbian goddess glass painting series goddesses of color Angela Davis 1980s
Source:
Osa Hidalgo de la Riva
Source Identifier:
500ohr06232022035.png
Type:
Image;Stillimage
Format:
image/png
Source
Preferred Citation:
"Painted glass figure", Chicana por mi Raza Digital Memory Collective, Chicana por mi Raza Digital Memory Collective
Reference Link:
https://marcosvdotcom.github.io/chicanapormiraza/items/cb019.html
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Osa Hidalgo de la Riva
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