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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Sorrow No. I
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.

Sorrow No. I

Artist Greta Matson (American, 1915 - 2004)
CultureAmerican
Date1954
MediumLithograph on wove paper
DimensionsOverall, Image: 11 15/16 × 9 1/16 in. (30.3 × 23 cm)
Overall, Sheet: 19 × 12 in. (48.3 × 30.5 cm)
Overall, Mat: 22 x 16 in. (55.9 x 40.6 cm)
InscribedEdition number in graphite at lower left: "1/8." Title in graphite in lower center: "Sorrow No. I." Signed and dated in graphite at lower right: "Greta Matson 1954."
Credit LineGift of Greta Matson Khouri
Object number56.63.1
Not on view
DescriptionMan with his hands obscuring his face.
Exhibition HistoryNational Academy of Design Contemporary Print and Watercolor show, November 15 - December 2, 1956. Published ReferencesRichmond News-Leader (May 28, 1956). "National Academy of Design: Special Exhibition of Contemporary Prints and Watercolors," exh. cat., 1956, no. 33. New York Herlad Tribune Book Review (November 18, 1956), p. 18. Virginian Pilot (November 25, 1956).
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Greta Matson
1954
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Greta Matson
1954
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Greta Wilhelmina Matson
May 8, 1947
Morning Paper
Greta Matson
No Date
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Greta Matson
1925 - 1975
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Greta Wilhelmina Matson
No Date
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Greta Wilhelmina Matson
1940
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Albert Bouts
1450-1550
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Keith Shaw Williams
ca. 1946
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Arthur William Heintzelman
1945
4x5 transparency scanned on Hasselblad Flextight X1 by Ed Pollard-2018.
Gaston Lachaise
modeled 1930-34, cast 1938
Image scanned and/or photographed, then color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
William Dickey King
1965