Large seated Egyptian statue with a broken face and carved hieroglyphs on its base.

Ralston Crawford

(Egypt, Sculpture of Seated God, Abu Simbal before Aswan Dam was Built)

1962, printed c.1962–1978

Not on view

View more by this artist https://whitney.org/collection/works/35002


Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Sheet: 13 15/16 × 10 7/8 in. (35.4 × 27.6 cm) Image: 13 1/4 × 9 in. (33.7 × 22.9 cm)

Accession number
2009.119

Credit line
Purchased jointly by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, with funds from the Photography Committee and Sondra Gilman Gonzalez-Falla; and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Rights and reproductions
© Ralston Crawford Estate / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

API
artworks/35002


On the Hour

A 30-second online art project:
Frank WANG Yefeng, The Levitating Perils #2

Learn more about this project

Learn more at whitney.org/artport

On the Hour projects can contain motion and sound. To respect your accessibility settings autoplay is disabled.