Boston (Sharon Morrison, a nurse with the Family Team at Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, has a special fondness and respect for this young mother and her daughter. She marvels at the calm and loving manner of the mother and the corresponding spirit of joy and playfulness in her child. The little girl is about to undergo emergency brain surgery to replace a shunt.)
1999
Betsy Karel
Artist, American, born 1946
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Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 22 × 32.7 cm (8 11/16 × 12 7/8 in.)
sheet: 27.9 × 35.4 cm (11 × 13 15/16 in.) -
Accession
2015.19.5107
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Betsy Karel, Washington, DC; gift to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 2007; acquired by NGA, 2015.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1999
The Way Home: Ending Homelessness in America, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, December 4, 1999 - January 30, 2000.
Inscriptions
on verso, by unknown hand, bottom right in graphite: FRAMPTON CGA #83