Flower of Death – The Bursting of a Heavy Shell – Not as It Looks, but as It Feels and Sounds and Smells

Media - 1981.163.18 - SAAM-1981.163.18_1 - 65938
Copied 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

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
Linked Open Data
https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/1981.163.18

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