Black Madonna
The painting is 304.5cm x 183cm in size and was done with oil on canvas.
For most of his life, Scully worked as an art educator while pursuing a career as a painter, experimenting with allegorical tribal themes, bleeding paint abstractions and photographs into which the artist worked with pen and ink. One of his best-known works was his Madonna and Child of Soweto, which was commissioned by The Star newspaper in 1973, and installed in Soweto's famous Regina Mundi church. In the l960s he represented South Africa at the Venice and Sao Paulo Biennales.
Inscription
Madonna and Child of Soweto
Painted by
Lawrence Scully
For
The Star’s Teach Fund
And Presented to the Church by
Mr Harry Oppenheimer
On February 25 1974
Submitted pictures
At Flickr
