Artist
Donna Coleman
Title
New Costumes
Date1996
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
Credit LineDC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Art Bank Collection
Object numberDCCAH2000.126
ClassificationsPaintings
Locations
Child and Family Services Agency (200 I Street, SE)
DescriptionThere are children who receive the best of everything money can buy. There are other children, at least equally fortunate, who, because of parents, teachers and other adults who love them, receive the best inspiration. Sometimes humble circumstances make humble gifts extraordinary. Sometimes humble circumstances can be the magical places that make everything possible. The children in this painting are lucky like that. Their teachers worked miracles and they are inspired.
