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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Bedridden Sculptor
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.

Bedridden Sculptor

Artist Sigmund Abeles (American, born 1934)
CultureAmerican
DateNo Date
MediumGraphite on paper
DimensionsOverall: 13 x 14 3/4 in. (33 x 37.5 cm)
Overall, Mat: 18 x 22 in. (45.7 x 55.9 cm)
InscribedSigned lower right: "Abeles".
Credit LineAnonymous gift
Object number63.16.5
Not on view
DescriptionBlack graphite drawing on white paper. A man is shown propped up in bed with his hands in his lap.
Exhibition HistoryExhibited in American Drawing Annual XX, January 1963; Lent to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts for traveling June 1967-July 1969.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Sigmund Abeles
No Date
Image scanned/or photographed from transparency and color corrected by Pat Cagney.
John Brewster
1800
Photographed by Pat Cagney.
Unknown
June 1826
Image photographed and color corrected by Pat Cagney.
Benjamin C. Gladding
1869
4x5 transparency scanned on Hasselblad Flextight X1 by Ed Pollard-2012.
Hyacinthe Rigaud
1696
Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Ed Pollard-2008.
Thomas Couture
ca. 1857
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II digital slr-2009.
Amedeo Modigliani
ca. 1918
New photography by Pat Cagney captured with a digital camera.
William Roe Howell
not dated
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2023.
Sarah Bushnell Perkins
ca. 1791