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Gravediggers

Artist Eugene Richards (American, born 1944)
Date1971
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 8 × 12 inches (20.32 × 30.48 cm)
Sheet: 10 7/8 × 13 7/8 inches (27.61 × 35.23 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2018.20.8
SignedSigned on sheet verso, lower right, in pencil: "Eugene Richards"
InscribedOn sheet verso, lower right, Rollison / Gravediggers, Arkansas / 1971"
Markingsnone
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DescriptionImage of four men wearing long coats and hats lowering a casket into the ground. The man near the left corner turns his head and smiles. A large heart decorated with flowers and ribbons is placed in the muddy landscape at the edge of the hole in the ground.Provenance
The Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2018;   
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2018.
Copyright© Eugene Richards
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