A wounded drummer boy being carried by two soldiers while another sits nearby, titled "The Wounded Drummer Boy."

Eleanor Antin

The Wounded Drummer Boy

1977

Not on view

67 works in the collection
7 exhibitions
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Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print mounted on paper, with ink

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

Accession number
95.68.26

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/9775

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.

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