Donna Ferrato

(Waltham, Massachusetts, 1949 - )

Blessing 4 The House, Minnie's Reward, Bruce, Mississippi

1993

Archival Pigment Print

24 x 30 in. (61.0 x 76.2 cm)

Collection of the Akron Art Museum

Gift of Gift of Carmen Campanelli, Jr.

2019.15.14

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Minnie Evans was pregnant when she was diagnosed with bone cancer in her left wrist. Rather than go through chemo which would have killed her unborn child, Minnie choose amputation, only her lower arm. She said,” I want a stump to hold my baby.”