Hospital – On the Stretcher Where I Lay I Opened My Eyes and Great Shadows Quivered on the Wall… The Feet of the Row in Front of Me Stuck Up Like Footlights at the Play

Media - 1981.163.16 - SAAM-1981.163.16_1 - 65936
Copied Claggett Wilson, Hospital--On the Stretcher Where I Lay I Opened My Eyes and Great Shadows Quivered on the Wall... The Feet of the Row in Front of Me Stuck Up Like Footlights at the Play, ca. 1919, watercolor and pencil on paperboard, image: 23 x 19 in. (58.4 x 48.2 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Alice H. Rossin, 1981.163.16

Artwork Details

Title
Hospital – On the Stretcher Where I Lay I Opened My Eyes and Great Shadows Quivered on the Wall… The Feet of the Row in Front of Me Stuck Up Like Footlights at the Play
Artist
Date
ca. 1919
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
image: 23 x 19 in. (58.4 x 48.2 cm)
Markings
on front, lower right, signed in pen and ink: Claggett Wilson on back, lower right, in pen and ink: No. 24 on back, upper right, on label, printed: Hospital -- On the stretcher where I lay I opened my eyes and great shadows quivered on the wall...the feet of hte row in front of me stuck up like footlights at the play... on back, lower center, in pencil: C. Wilson/III C. 62/Tel 1367 Plaza on back, lower left, in pencil: H05865 on back, center right: II (sideways) on back, upper right and lower left, stamped: BAINBRIDGE/ILLUSTRATION BOARD/TRADE NUMBER 80 MARK/22X30 or 30x40/single or double/thick (in a diamond)
Credit Line
Gift of Alice H. Rossin
Mediums
Mediums Description
watercolor and pencil on paperboard
Classifications
Keywords
  • Figure group
  • Occupation — medicine — nurse
  • Landscape — phenomenon — light
  • Occupation — medicine — doctor
  • History — United States — World War I
  • Architecture Interior — civic — hospital
Object Number
1981.163.16
Linked Open Data
https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/1981.163.16