Ruth Starr Rose

Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child

1943

A terrified man recoils as several demonic figures seize him while a bright light appears above.
A terrified man recoils as several demonic figures seize him while a bright light appears above.

Ruth Starr Rose, Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child, 1943. Lithograph, sheet: 12 5/8 × 19 in. (32.1 × 48.3 cm) Image: 10 1/8 × 13 in. (25.7 × 33 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from The Lauder Foundation, Leonard and Evelyn Lauder Fund 96.68.239

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Not on view

Date
1943

Classification
Prints

Medium
Lithograph

Dimensions
Sheet: 12 5/8 × 19 in. (32.1 × 48.3 cm) Image: 10 1/8 × 13 in. (25.7 × 33 cm)

Accession number
96.68.239

Publication
Printed by George C. Miller

Credit line
Purchase, with funds from The Lauder Foundation, Leonard and Evelyn Lauder Fund

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist's estate

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