Ghetto Boy (Boy with Safety Pin)
Artist
Dr. Virginia Kiah
(American, born Baltimore, MD 1911-died Savannah, GA 2001)
Dateca. 1940
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensions
23 1/2 × 23 1/2 in. (59.7 × 59.7 cm)
ClassificationPainting
Credit LineGift of Dr. Virginia Kiah
Object number2005.3.19
DescriptionExhibited at Carnegie Institute, Pittsburg. This work was painted when Kiah was living in Cambridge, Maryland. The subject would walk past the artist's home every day, and one day she asked him to pose.
Not on view