Eleanor Antin

The Dead Soldier

1977

A soldier lies face down on dry ground, motionless with arms and legs spread.
A soldier lies face down on dry ground, motionless with arms and legs spread.

Recto

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 (Sight): 8 × 9 15/16 in. (20.3 × 25.2 cm)

Accession number
95.68.24

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/9773

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

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Eleanor Antin
67 works in the collection, 7 exhibitions

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