Greater Than Her Heart: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

An archival pigment print photograph of collaged images featuring a black-and-white photograph of a woman in a floral dress seated at a piano. The photograph has been torn at the top and bottom and set into the dark shape of a house, with crocheted lace appearing across the top of the house shape. The house shape appears along the left side of the photograph, set against a piece of sheet music in the background. The sheet music is slightly out of focus and four lines of verses appear at right center. The print is mounted on black sintra pvc board with back frame and a label with the artist, title, date, medium, and dimensions.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 2008
• Created by: Kesha Bruce, American
• Subject of: Unidentified Woman or Women
• Type: collages
• Type: photographs
• Type: inkjet prints
• Medium: pigment on paper mounted on polyvinyl chloride board
• Dimensions: H x W: 27 x 20 in. (68.6 x 50.8 cm)
• Dimensions: with mounted backing: 27 × 20 × 1 1/16 in. (68.6 × 50.8 × 2.7 cm)
• Place depicted: Des Moines, Iowa, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Art
• Topic: Black geographies
• Topic: Domestic life
• Topic: Families
• Topic: Identity
• Topic: Music
• Topic: Photography
• Object number: 2013.77.14
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of the artist and Morton Fine Art
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

Sources and reuse

Catalogue descriptions and facts adapted from National Museum of African American History and Culture through the Smithsonian's official Open Access dataset. This record explicitly marks its metadata CC0 1.0; formatting and selection have been changed. The underlying object's rights statement is: © Kesha Bruce Permission required for use. Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.