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Staying Home

1999

William Kentridge

Associated Names

William Kentridge

Artist, South African, born 1955

The image shows a row of trees and shrubs drawn in an illustrative style on a page filled with Latin text from a book titled “Georgicon IV.” The horizon is depicted by the top line of bushes and trees. The drawing is in black ink on aged paper. The text "STAYING HOME" is written in bold red letters at the bottom of the page. The piece is centered on a larger sheet with white space surrounding it.

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Artwork overview

Medium

etching, aquatint and crayon on printed paper
Credit Line

Anonymous Gift in tribute to Montague \\"Monty\\" Yudelman, PhD (b. South Africa, d. Washington, DC)
Dimensions

overall: 33.66 × 48.58 cm (13 1/4 × 19 1/8 in.)
Accession Number

2024.154.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Robert Brown Gallery, c. 2000-2001, Washington, DC); Anonymous; promised gift to NGA, January 2016.

Associated Names

Anonymous

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