Eleanor Antin

The Execution of a Deserter
1977

A black and white photograph centered on a textured paper with a group of figures standing in a natural landscape with shrubs and trees. Below the image, the caption "The Execution of a Deserter" is inscribed in cursive text.
A black and white photograph centered on a textured paper with a group of figures standing in a natural landscape with shrubs and trees. Below the image, the caption "The Execution of a Deserter" is inscribed in cursive text.

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Date
1977

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Gelatin silver print mounted on paper, with ink

Dimensions
Mount: 30 3/8 × 22in. (77.2 × 55.9 cm) Sheet (sight): 11 15/16 × 14 7/8in. (30.3 × 37.8 cm)

Accession number
95.68.36

Edition
1/1

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from Joanne Leonhardt Cassullo and the Photography Committee

Rights and reproductions
Courtesy Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York

API
artworks/9785

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

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A black and white photograph centered on a large piece of paper with rough edges, depicting a woman and a child sitting on the ground among trees, with the woman reading a letter to the child. Below the photograph, on the paper, the phrase "A Letter from Home" is written in cursive script.
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Eleanor Antin
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