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Psychopathic Ward
Psychopathic Ward

Psychopathic Ward

Primary (Decatur, Illinois, 1896–Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1970)
NationalityAmerican, North America
Date1940
MediumLithograph with tint stone
Edition Info38/50
Catalogue raisonnéBassham 78
DimensionsSheet: 17 3/16 × 23 5/8 in. (43.7 × 60 cm)
Image: 14 5/16 × 18 7/8 in. (36.3 × 47.9 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, The Karen G. and Dr. Elgin W. Ware, Jr. Collection, 2000.9
Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number2000.9
On View
Not on view
Label Text
Riggs covered the stone with a medium grey tone and then scratched to add highlights and added black in areas. A tint stone, which is also scraped away in places to expose the white of the sheet, adds additional depth to the composition. By covering the entire print in a grey tone, Riggs emphasizes the central figure around whom chaos looms.
Exhibitions
Children's Ward
Children's Ward
Robert Riggs
circa 1940
Object number: 1997.16
Ward Rounds
Ward Rounds
Robert Riggs
circa 1940
Object number: 1997.37
Accident Ward
Accident Ward
Robert Riggs
circa 1940
Object number: 1997.15
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Le plaisir dans les bois [Pleasure in the Woods], from L'Artiste
Adolphe Appian
1857
Object number: 1982.280
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1840
Object number: 1989.61
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Pablo Picasso
1952
Object number: 1991.64
View of the Outside of the Roman Baths at Trier
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Johann Anton Ramboux
1826
Object number: 1994.15
Image Not Available for Two Female Donors with Patron Saints Catherine and Gubula, from The Death of the Virgin, after Joos van Cleve, from Galerie des Frères Boisserée
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Johann Nepomuk Strixner
1832
Object number: 1997.57
Image Not Available for Two Male Donors with Patron Saints George and Nicasius, from The Death of the Virgin, after Joos van Cleve, from Galerie des Frères Boisserée
Two Male Donors with Patron Saints George and Nicasius, from The Death of the Virgin, after Joos van Cleve, from Galerie des Frères Boisserée
Johann Nepomuk Strixner
1832
Object number: 1997.58
Autorretrato [Self Portrait]
Autorretrato [Self Portrait]
Diego Rivera
1930
Object number: 1986.95
Autorretrato [Self Portrait]
Autorretrato [Self Portrait]
Diego Rivera
1930
Object number: 1986.92