Eleanor Antin

Our Jolly Cook

1977

A man in costume dances in front of seated soldiers and standing nurses by a riverside.
A man in costume dances in front of seated soldiers and standing nurses by a riverside.

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): 12 × 14 7/8 in. (30.5 × 37.8 cm)

Accession number
95.68.35

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/9784

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.

Eleanor Antin
67 works in the collection, 7 exhibitions

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