Eleanor Antin

A Letter from Home

1977

A woman in a white apron reads a letter to a seated man in a wooded clearing.

A woman in a white apron reads a letter to a seated man in a wooded clearing.

Not on view

Date
1977

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print mounted on paper, with ink

Dimensions
Mount: 30 3/8 × 22 in. (77.2 × 55.9 cm) Sheet: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)

Accession number
95.68.16

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/9765

Part of a series:
The Angel of Mercy: My Tour of Duty in the Crimea
38 works

A man and woman sit outdoors at a small table, sharing a cup of tea.

A person tending to a horse's hoof while another watches, with caption "A Friend in Need."

Four soldiers walk along a sandy path after a charge, with handwritten title "After the Charge."

A woman in a white apron reads a letter to a seated man in a wooded clearing.

A soldier sits at a tent entrance, taking a break and cleaning his boots.

Three people set up tents on a scrubby hillside campsite with the handwritten words camp life.

Three riders on horseback pause near a large haystack while companions sit nearby.

Child in a sailor outfit bends to scatter feed for ducks near trees.

Three soldiers interrogate a captured man near a tent in a grassy field.

A nurse and two men stand in a muddy trench beside wounded soldiers.

Exhibitions

Photography and the Self:
The Legacy of F. Holland Day

Dec 20, 2006–Mar 4, 2007

Eleanor Antin
67 works in the collection, 7 exhibitions

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