Artwork
Untitled
Untitled is a photographic photography by Percy Bryant Baker. It dates from 1931 and is held in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum.
About this work
Overview
This untitled black-and-white photograph is mounted on a green card and features a statue of a woman and a young boy.
Subject & Meaning
The statue depicts a woman in a long dress and hat holding a book, with a boy in a shirt and pants looking up at her. The woman's serious expression and the boy's curious gaze suggest a maternal or educational theme.
History & Provenance
The photograph was part of a collection bequeathed to the museum by William Kineton Parkes in 1938. Parkes, a novelist and art historian, had solicited photographs from sculptors in the 1920s, and this image was one of the responses he received.
Artist & collection
Artist
Percy Bryant Baker better known as Bryant Baker, was a British-born American sculptor. He sculpted a number of busts of famous Americans. In 1910, Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom commissioned him to create a bust of King Edward VII.
