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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Burmese Smuggler
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.

Burmese Smuggler

Artist Mead Schaeffer (American, 1898 - 1980)
CultureAmerican
DateNo Date
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsOverall: 39 1/2 x 14 3/4 in. (100.3 x 37.5 cm)
InscribedInitialed lower right
Credit LineThe Frank K. Tarrant Collection, gift of the Tarrant family
Object number99.28.14
Not on view
DescriptionA beautifully colored painting of a man in a white suit and tie, with a gun standing in front of a painted figure on a wall or canvas.

New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera - 2008.
Mead Schaeffer
ca. 1940
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
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Image scanned and/or photographed, then color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
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Photographed by Scott Wolff.  Scanned from a slide.  Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
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Scanned from a slide by Jimmy Brown; color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
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Photographed by Scott Wolff.  Scanned from a slide.  Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
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Object photographed by Scott Wolff.  Scanned from a slide.  Image color corrected by Pat Cagney…
Thomas Hovenden
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4x5 transparency scanned on Hasselblad Flextight X1 by Ed Pollard-2014.
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Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.  Photographed by Scott Wol…
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4x5 transparency scanned on Hasselblad Flextight X1 by Ed Pollard-2013.
Philip Leslie Hale
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Color corrected by Pat Cagney.
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