Sad Telephone Call (with Saul Steinberg mask)
Artist
Inge Morath
(American, born Austria, 1923 - 2002)
Date1961
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 12 7/8 × 8 5/8 in. (32.7 × 21.9 cm)
Support: 14 × 11 in. (35.6 × 27.9 cm)
Mat: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
Support: 14 × 11 in. (35.6 × 27.9 cm)
Mat: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of W.M. Hunt/Dancing Bear, 2022
Object number2022.16.6
DescriptionDark background with human figure filling much of the frame. Person is wearing a patterned vest and dark jacket, with right arm at his side and left arm bent to hold a telephone receiver to the area where his ear would be. Head is covered with a paper bag on which rudimentary eyes and a straight mouth are drawn. There is a hole cut out for the nose and a tear is drawn under the right eye.On View
Not on view
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