Published: "Black, White, and Shades of Gray: Picturing Identity in Robert, Calvin, Martha and William Scott and Nurse Mila," by Emma Acker

In 2010, Emma Acker, curatorial assistant in the American Art department, published her article "Black, White, and Shades of Gray: Picturing Identity in Robert, Calvin, Martha and William Scott and Nurse Mila" in Making Connections: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Cultural Diversity (Bloomsburg University, 2009) and in Southern Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the South (Northwestern State University, 2010).

The article discusses the subjects pictured in the painting below, currently on view at the de Young in gallery 23. Ms. Acker also wrote a blog post about this painting, which can be read here.

Unidentified artist, American
Robert, Calvin, Martha and William Scott and Mila, ca. 1843–1845
Oil on canvas
Gift of Margaret Clifton Boyd and Cynthia Hollister Nagel
2008.14