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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
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Credit Line
Museum purchase made possible by the W. Hawkins Ferry Fund and anonymous individual benefactors
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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
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Credit Line
Museum purchase made possible by the W. Hawkins Ferry Fund and anonymous individual benefactors
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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
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Credit Line
Museum purchase made possible by the W. Hawkins Ferry Fund and anonymous individual benefactors
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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
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rank 36.40414
Credit Line
Museum purchase made possible by the W. Hawkins Ferry Fund and anonymous individual benefactors
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