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Maker(s):Steckel, Anita
Culture:American (1930 - 2012)
Title:Presidential Handshake
Date Made:1981
Type:Drawing
Materials:gelatin silver print and graphite mounted on thick paperboard
Measurements:Mount: 14 7/8 in x 11 15/16 in; 37.8 cm x 30.3 cm; Sheet/Image: 14 in x 10 7/8 in; 35.6 cm x 27.6 cm
Narrative Inscription:  signature on recto lower left in pencil: Steckel [damaged], title on verso on mount lower left in pencil: "Presidential Handshake" -, signature and date on verso on mount lower right in pencil: Anita Steckel '81
Accession Number:  SC 2019.13.37
Credit Line:Gift of the Estate of Anita Steckel
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
shadowy photographic image of a woman at center; surrounded by drawings of faces and a skull on far right; drawn torso below, with large hand extending toward the middle from the right

Tags:
self-portraits; women; sexuality; deaths

Subjects:
Death; Self-portraits; Sex; Women; Graphite; Paperboard; Photographic gelatin

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