Detail View: The AMICA Library: Head of a Screaming Man
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AMICA ID:
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CMA_.1967.130.a
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AMICA Library Year:
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1999
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Object Type:
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Drawings and Watercolors
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Creator Name:
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West, Benjamin
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Creator Nationality:
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North American; American
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Creator Role:
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artist
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Creator Dates/Places:
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1738 - 1820
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Gender:
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M
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Benjamin West
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Title:
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Head of a Screaming Man
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Title Type:
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Primary
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View:
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Full View
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Creation Date:
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c. 1792
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Creation Start Date:
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1787
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Creation End Date:
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1797
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Materials and Techniques:
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black crayon
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Dimensions:
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Sheet: 32.3cm x 40.7cm
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AMICA Contributor:
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The Cleveland Museum of Art
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Owner Location:
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Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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ID Number:
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1967.130.a
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Credit Line:
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Dudley P. Allen Fund
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Rights:
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Context:
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After studying in Italy, Benjamin West achieved outstanding success in England, where he served as the second president of the Royal Academy of Arts in London and became a personal friend of King George III. West's earliest paintings were classical and restrained in spirit, but in the 1780s, influenced by the writer Edmund Burke, he became interested in producing grand, terrifying compositions of destruction and apocalypse.
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Link to Work:
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CMA_.1967.130.b
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Related Image Identifier Link:
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CMA_.1967.130.a.tif
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