Scat Series #3

Scat Series #3
Manuel Hughes
1991
Materials
Oil on paper
Size
15 1/4 x 18 1/4 inches
Racine Art Museum, Gift of Stefanie Juster Gothelf
About the artwork.
A collector of the objects he paints, Manuel Hughes realistically captures ordinary and mundane objects set against non-descript backgrounds, as seen in Scat Series #3. This type of presentation pushes the viewer to consider each item’s unique personality. In this particular work, Hughes has highlighted social issues by painting metal signs with the words, “African-American, “Black,” and “Colored Women.”