Name: Baby with Attitude
Made by and When: Goldie Wilson, 2013
Material: Porcelain with pellet-stuffed brown cloth body, cloth upper arms and legs
Marks: (Head) 2013 / Goldie (lower back is hand signed) Goldie Wilson / 2013
Height: 16 inches
Hair, Eyes, Mouth: Dark brown natural-textured, floppy wig; brown glass inset eyes with applied upper eyelashes and painted lower eyelashes, closed mouth
Clothes: White antique baby dress, white pantaloons, white cloth headband tied in a top bow, bare feet
Other: A handwritten short story on the doll’s back reads, I am hungry. I want to go home. Goldie Wilson is a renowned doll artist whose dollmaking began in 1990 through reproduction doll making, which led to creating her own sculpts of authentic doll representations of Black people (Goldie Wilson). The artist works chiefly in porcelain and also in cloth.
Gallery
Baby w/
Attitude,
#1 I am hungry.
I want to go home.
Goldie Wilson 2013
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