Mary Fields
sculpture
25 x 14 x 13
I was reading about relatively unknown African Americans, and I came across Mary Fields. I wanted to capture her essence in sculpture, and worked from a few photos. She was a freed slave who made her way by working for a convent, running a laundry, a stagecoach driver, and the first woman US mail carrier. She was 6 foot tall, cigar smoking, gun toting, and dressed in men’s clothing, but always wore a white apron. Her one concession to being a woman. She was tough and no one messed with her.
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