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Our Festering Hands Ruin All.

Artist Clarence John Laughlin (American, 1905 - 1985)
Date1949
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall: 9 3/4 x 7 3/4 inches (24.77 x 19.69 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.1747
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We Reach for our Dead Hearts (We Reach for Our Lost Hearts)
Clarence John Laughlin
February 9, 1941; printed 1950
2005.27.1715
Spectre of Ruin #2
Clarence John Laughlin
June 28, 1941; printed 1973
2005.27.1675
Spectre of Ruin #1, (The House of Hysteria)
Clarence John Laughlin
June 28, 1941
2005.27.1750
Dweller in the Ruins #1(Dora Harrison near Diamond St.)
Clarence John Laughlin
1940
2005.27.1721
Children of the Ruins #2
Clarence John Laughlin
1939
2005.27.1730
Transformation of the Feminine from Mystery to Mystery.
Clarence John Laughlin
September 9, 1940; printed 1954
2005.27.1655
The Eye That Never Sleeps.
Clarence John Laughlin
1946
2005.27.1656
Leda in the Shadows
Clarence John Laughlin
1940
2005.27.1657
The Auto-Eroticists
Clarence John Laughlin
1941
2005.27.1658
The House of the Lost( The Melieu of Loss)
Clarence John Laughlin
1940; printed 1981
2005.27.1672
Plantation Boy
Clarence John Laughlin
September 10, 1951; printed 1972
2005.27.1673
Breathing Marble
Clarence John Laughlin
1962; printed 1979
2005.27.1674