"This is the one when I was asleep. I had been in the hospital almost a month so I look kind of worn down. This picture does not do my room justice. It was all in pink and blue. I had a French telephone beside my bed on the radio that doesn't show up...", 1930s

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Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 8 x 13.6 cm (3 1/8 x 5 3/8 in.)

sheet: 8.8 x 14.6 cm (3 7/16 x 5 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Robert E. Jackson

Accession Number

2008.134.84

Artists / Makers

American 20th Century (artist)

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Inscription

on verso, by subject, upper center in graphite: This is the one when I was asleep. I had been in the hospital almost a month as I look kind of worn down. This picture does not do my room justice. It was all in pink and blue. I had a french telephone beside my bed on the radio that doesn't show up here. Really it is wonderful the way the hospital rooms are so cheerful and look so little like a hospital and so much like a hotel room; lower left stamped in blue ink: 239

Provenance

Robert E. Jackson, Seattle; gift to NGA, 2008.

Associated Names

Jackson, Robert

Exhibition History

2007: The Art of the American Snapshot, 1888-1978: From the Collection of Robert E. Jackson, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2007 - 2008, no. 93.