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- Title
- The Dead Soldier
- Artist
- Joseph Wright of Derby
- Physical Description
- A fallen man in the red coat of the 18th c. British military officer lies face down in a landscape. To the left, holding his hand, is a grieving widow and infant son. Behind the grouping is a landscape that opens off to the left with the reddish glow of continued combat. Behind the figures, a drapery has been set in the trees to frame the grouping and separate it from the distant landscape behind them.
- Artist Life Dates
- 1734-1797
- Century
- 18th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1789
- Accession Number
- 2006/1.156
- Medium and Support
- oil on canvas
- relevance
- rank 36.40414
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase made possible by the W. Hawkins Ferry Fund and anonymous individual benefactors
- Title
- Monument to the Lycée Chases
- Artist
- Christian Boltanski
- Physical Description
- Three black and white photographs of young people's faces are vertically arranged. Above each and below the center image are smaller versions of similar portrait photographs. Four of these smaller photos are also arranged in the line of the large photographs, one on each end, and two separating the larger pictues. All the photos are surrounded by an arrangement of light bulbs, which are connected by a network of electrical cables that snake along the walls and over the photos.
- Artist Life Dates
- Born 1944
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1989
- Accession Number
- 2006/1.154
- Medium and Support
- gelatin silver prints, biscuit tins, electric cables, and sixty-eight lightbulbs
- relevance
- rank 36.40414
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase made possible by the W. Hawkins Ferry Fund and anonymous individual benefactors
- Title
- Untitled
- Artist
- Kara Walker
- Physical Description
- A horizontal lighbox enclosed by a wide, black molded frame in which Kara Walker's signature silhouettes are encased in linen and lit from behind. Silhouettes represent four figures: a man and child at viewer's left, two women at right.
- Artist Life Dates
- b. 1969
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1996-1997
- Accession Number
- 2006/1.152
- Medium and Support
- cut paper between linen, mounted in wooden light box
- relevance
- rank 36.40414
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase made possible by the W. Hawkins Ferry Fund and anonymous individual benefactors
- Title
- Selections from Truisms
- Artist
- Jenny Holzer
- Physical Description
- LED display running time approximately 25 minutes with looping text of approximately 170 truisms in red text.
- Artist Life Dates
- born 1950
- Century
- 20th century
- Object Creation Date
- 1983
- Accession Number
- 2006/1.151
- Medium and Support
- electronic L.E.D. with red diodes
- relevance
- rank 36.40414
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase made possible by the W. Hawkins Ferry Fund and anonymous individual benefactors