Citation
"Scene 4: Bedtime for the Boys (LaToya M. Hobbs) , 2022.224.4,” Harvard Art Museums collections online, Apr 20, 2024, https://hvrd.art/o/375875.
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Three large black-and-white prints abut to show a whole scene of a family of four in a children’s bedroom getting ready for bed, at life-size scale. In the center of the room, one son gets a piggyback ride from his father: the father is on his hands and knees on the floor, and the child sits on his back. The child wears a onesie, and the father wears a button-down shirt, pants, and sneakers. Covering the center of the floor is a speckled rug with two stuffed animals and a toy dump truck on it. To the right is a children’s tent. In the middle of the scene, against the back wall, is a single bed. The mother sits on the bed and holds a children’s book open. She wears a sweatshirt, sweatpants, and slippers. On the cover of the book is the head of a bear in a circle. The second son sits to her left, smiling and looking at the pages of the book. Like his brother, he wears a onesie. To the right of the mother is a window, with the blinds only half-down. Through the window is the outline of a hedge, another house, and a crescent moon. On the wall behind the bed are framed works of art and two children’s drawings: one work shows a dinosaur in profile with a crown above its head, and the other shows a woman’s head and torso in profile. On the wall to the left are two more children’s drawings taped to the wall, above a world map. The door to the room is adjacent and ajar; it opens onto a blank and black space.
