DETAILS
- Artist
- Ivan Albright
- Date
- 1918
- Medium
- Watercolor, graphite and ink on cream wove paper
- Location
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Dimensions
- 16 × 26 cm (6 5/16 × 10 1/4 in.)
- Collection
- Prints and Drawings
- Culture
- United States
- Credit line
- Gift of Philip V. Festoso
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THE ARTIST
Ivan Albright
Ivan Albright, the "master of the macabre," spent years meticulously detailing the fragility of flesh and the human condition in works like "That Which I Should Have Done I Did Not Do (The Door)."
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