A Dog in A Manger

Artist Russell Ferguson (American, born 1955)

Printer The Lawrence Lithography Workshop (American, founded 1979)

Publisher Tim S. Brown, d.b.a. Telephonebooth Gallery (born 1964)

Date2016

MediumLithograph on Rives BFK white paper

DimensionsImage: 21 1/2 × 22 1/4 inches (54.61 × 56.52 cm)
Sheet: 22 1/2 × 24 inches (57.15 × 60.96 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust through the George H. and Elizabeth O. Davis Fund and the Andrew Atterbury and Gwen Prentice Fund

Object number2024.9.31

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DescriptionIn the top center, a bearded male figure wearing either a halo or a hat brim pulls back the metal grate of a cubic box. He is wearing a white shirt and a patterned apron. He stands on a shelf. A woman is seated on the shelf with her proper right leg extended and wraps her arm around his leg. She has shoulder length pale hair, a grey dress, and a black mid-calf on the extended leg. A mix of messy contents is spilling out of the box, hard to tell what they are. A woman in a short black dress and short socks leans into the box searching for something – the dog, perhaps? On the left, two hinged sides of the box have come off. A small boy facing right emerges from the grate that makes up one of the sides, his arms stretched out. On the right side of the print, a tall tree with droopy branches. A pale-haired woman in a black medieval-style dress with a white belt and trim stands with two small children who look to the left. At the bottom, two pleated, bellows-like supports hole up the box. No dog in sight.Provenance

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