Bonnie Sucec

American, b. 1942

Broken Leg
1986

Gouache on paper
26 x 20 in. (66.04 x 50.8 cm)
Museum Purchase with the Charter Member Endowment Fund
1988.145

• abstract - Genre of visual arts in which figurative subjects or other forms are simplified or changed in their representation so that they do not portray a recognizable person, object, thing, etc.; may reference an idea, quality, or state rather than a concrete object. For the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances, prefer "abstraction." For 20th-century art styles that were a reaction against the traditional European conception of art as the imitation of nature, use "Abstract (fine arts style)."
• crescents - Motifs consisting of a curved segment of a circle, often suggesting a crescent moon.
• cross
• deer
• eyes
• fish
• flower
• knives
• mountain
• Residual limbs - Sources:
  - May, B.J. Amputations and prosthetics, 2002:
  - Winchell, E. Coping with limb loss, 1995:
  - Email correspondence from Leslie Duncan, Nat'l Limb Loss Information Center, Nov. 19, 2002
  - MESH
  - Web. 3
• stars - Massive self-luminous celestial bodies of gas that shine by radiation derived from internal energy sources. There are tens of billions of trillions of stars composing the visible universe.