Robert Beck

Untitled ("Approaches to Art Therapy: Theory and Technique" Ed. Judith Aaron Rubin)
1995/2007

A pencil drawing depicting a skeletal figure with exaggerated features standing inside a bubble, with a coiled line leading out of the bubble to the top of the image. The figure has wings and is surrounded by a circular frame, with a small depiction of the Earth at the bottom. Below the image is a caption explaining that the drawing represents the atrophied physical and psychological state of a patient upon admission, who spent most of the day curled up in bed and remained in their room for nine months.
A pencil drawing depicting a skeletal figure with exaggerated features standing inside a bubble, with a coiled line leading out of the bubble to the top of the image. The figure has wings and is surrounded by a circular frame, with a small depiction of the Earth at the bottom. Below the image is a caption explaining that the drawing represents the atrophied physical and psychological state of a patient upon admission, who spent most of the day curled up in bed and remained in their room for nine months.

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Date
1995/2007

Classification
Drawings

Medium
Charcoal, latent fingerprint powder, graphite pencil, ink and acrylic on paper

Dimensions
Sheet: 12 × 9in. (30.5 × 22.9 cm)

Accession number
2012.252

Series
Diagnostic Drawings

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of James R. Hedges, IV

Rights and reproductions
© Robert Beck

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Robert Beck
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