Miz Lela's Baby Numbered Print by Gilbert Young
This art donation to the George Washington Carver Museum and Cultural Center was given to the
Ambassadors by James and Benita Love of Killeen, Texas in 2013. They are black art advocates, collectors
and friends of Ambassador Polly Emerson whose husband, Paul grew up with James in Sacramento,
California. The artist, Gilbert Young is a painter, muralist, graphic artist and native of Cincinnati, Ohio
whose works show African Americans as a people of a rich heritage. He said this is "a piece I really enjoyed
painting. Look at it and you think the boy is Miz Lela's baby. In fact the woman is Miz Lela's baby, and
Lela is my mother-in-law.ā