Eleanor Antin

"The Quality of Mercy is not Strained...."

1977

A storyteller in a cape gestures toward children sitting on the grass as one child stands with arms outstretched.
A storyteller in a cape gestures toward children sitting on the grass as one child stands with arms outstretched.

Not on view

Date
1977

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print mounted on paper, with ink

Dimensions
Sheet (Sight): 7 × 10 in. (17.8 × 25.4 cm) Image (Sight): 6 11/16 × 9 11/16 in. (17 × 24.6 cm) Mount: 18 × 13 in. (45.7 × 33 cm)

Accession number
95.67.3

Edition
1/1

Credit line
Purchase, with funds from Joanne Leonhardt Cassullo and the Photography Committee

Rights and reproductions
Courtesy Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York

API
artworks/9715

Part of a series:
The Angel of Mercy: The Nightingale Family Album
25 works

A Victorian-era man in a top hat chats with a woman in a full skirt while a child reads nearby.
A group of people in period dresses play blind man's buff outdoors on a grassy patch.
Woman in a long period dress and bonnet stands on a porch holding flowers near a window.
Three people in historical clothing stand under a tree, one person playing a guitar.
People in period clothing sing while a woman plays piano and a man gestures toward the window, captioned 'Country Air'.
A woman in a dark 19th-century dress stands beside a small statue on a draped table.
A seated woman in a dark dress with lace collar, inscription below reads "Myself 1854".
A woman in a historical maid uniform stands with hands clasped, wearing a lace cap.
A man helps a girl in a dress swing higher while holding the ropes.
Three women in period clothing sit and stand on a porch, one woman looking out over foliage.

Eleanor Antin
67 works in the collection, 7 exhibitions

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