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They Too
1987
Mary T. Smith
American, 1905-1995
Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
Mary T. Smith lived alone in a house on Highway 51 outside Hazlehurst, Mississippi. A domestic worker and former tenant farmer, she surrounded her home with paintings on wood and metal that depict people and personal spiritual texts. Informed by yard art traditions, nearby billboards, and her Christian beliefs, Smith’s painting installation was a form of divine conversation between its domestic, everyday characteristics and eternal glory.
- Maker/Artist
- Smith, Mary T.
- Classification
- Painting
- Formatted Medium
- Oil or acrylic on wood
- Dimensions
- 32 × 24 in. (81.3 × 61.0 cm)
- Departments
- Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
- Accession Number
- 2018.37.4
- Credit Line
- Gift of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation from the William S. Arnett Collection, 2018
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