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Claggett Wilson, Flower of Death--The Bursting of a Heavy Shell--Not as It Looks, but as It Feels and Sounds and Smells, ca. 1919, watercolor and pencil on paperboard, image: 16 1⁄2 x 22 in. (41.9 x 55.9 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Alice H. Rossin, 1981.163.18
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Artwork Details
- Title
- Flower of Death – The Bursting of a Heavy Shell – Not as It Looks, but as It Feels and Sounds and Smells
- Artist
- Date
- ca. 1919
- Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- image: 16 1⁄2 x 22 in. (41.9 x 55.9 cm)
- Markings
- on front, upper left, signed in pen and ink: Claggett Wilson on back, upper left, with brush and ink: N. 13 on back, upper left, on label, printed: Flower of Death - The bursting of a heavy shell - not as it looks, but as it feels and sounds and smells on back, lower left, in pencil: H05865 (upside down) on back, right center: III
- Credit Line
- Gift of Alice H. Rossin
- Mediums
- Mediums Description
- watercolor and pencil on paperboard
- Classifications
- Keywords
- Figure group — male
- Occupation — military — soldier
- Allegory — death
- History — United States — World War I
- Disaster — accident — explosion
- Architecture Exterior — military — battlefield
- Object Number
- 1981.163.18