The Frances Young Tang
Teaching Museum and Art Gallery
at Skidmore College
815 North Broadway
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
Phone: 518-580-8080
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Collection
Artwork
Artist
Donna Ferrato
(born Waltham, Massachusetts, 1949)
Title
Rita (Portrait of an Unbeatable Woman)
Creation date
1984
Materials
archival pigment print on paper
Dimensions
image size: 20 x 12 7/8 in.
paper size: 24 x 20 in.
Credit Line
Gift of Susan and AJ Cass
Place of Creation
photographed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North America
Accession Number
2020.34.3
Object Type
Photographs
Marks
Signed, dated, and inscribed, paper verso, lower right: © Donna Ferrato / 1984 RITA
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In this photograph, Rita—who has been beaten by her husband—looks toward the camera of Donna Ferrato, whose series
Living with the Enemy
aims to demonstrate the prevalence of domestic abuse and the urgent need for an end to violence against women.
From the exhibition:
Where Words Falter: Art and Empathy (July 9 – December 18, 2022)
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