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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

  • 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, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Alice H. Rossin, 1981.163.16

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
Claggett Wilson
Date
ca. 1919
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
image: 23 x 19 in. (58.4 x 48.2 cm) 
Credit Line

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Gift of Alice H. Rossin

Mediums
pencil
watercolor
Mediums Description
watercolor and pencil on paperboard
Classifications
Painting
Keywords
  • Figure group
  • Landscape – phenomenon – light
  • History – United States – World War I
  • Occupation – medicine – doctor
  • Architecture Interior – civic – hospital
  • Occupation – medicine – nurse
Object Number
1981.163.16
Palette
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