Robert Beck

Untitled ("The Video Manual" by David Cheshire / "Art as Healing" by Edward Adamson)
1999–2007

A surreal black and white drawing featuring jagged mountain peaks in the background with a strange, organic form in the foreground that resembles a plant with an eye. The eye is shedding a tear that flows into a heart-shaped pool. Below the image, there is text describing the drawing as a self-portrait by the artist, depicting a crying eye that grows like a plant.
A surreal black and white drawing featuring jagged mountain peaks in the background with a strange, organic form in the foreground that resembles a plant with an eye. The eye is shedding a tear that flows into a heart-shaped pool. Below the image, there is text describing the drawing as a self-portrait by the artist, depicting a crying eye that grows like a plant.

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Date
1999–2007

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Charcoal, colored pencil, fabricated chalk, latent fingerprint powder and collage on paper

Dimensions
Sheet: 16 11/16 × 12in. (42.4 × 30.5 cm)

Accession number
2008.38

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from Beth Rudin DeWoody

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

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Robert Beck
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