Long after the Hospital Is Asleep, Schweitzer Works at His Desk

1954

W. Eugene Smith

Artist, American, 1918 - 1978

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Robert B. Menschel

  • Dimensions

    image/sheet: 23.2 × 34.5 cm (9 1/8 × 13 9/16 in.)
    mount: 40.8 × 40 cm (16 1/16 × 15 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2022.154.25


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Estate of Robert B. Menschel, New York; gift to NGA, 2022.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2017

  • Posing for the Camera: Gifts from Robert B. Menschel, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2017 - 2018, unnumbered catalogue.

Inscriptions

signed by artist, bottom right impressed with graphite pencil: W. Eugene Smith; on verso, by unknown hand, top left in graphite: Set #1 / 120 [perpendicular]; top right in black ink on applied label: RBM / ES-11; top right in graphite: RBM; upper left: #49; upper center: [printing notes] / Proof sheet # c149 Frame #41; center underline and circled: Ragboard 16 x 20 other way; center artist stamp in black ink; by unknown hand, center right in graphite: 65; lower center artist copyright stamp in black ink; lower center stamped in black ink: PERSONAL EXHIBITION PRINT / RETURNABLE ON DEMAND.


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