Male Nude Study

John Heliker

About 1960

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This black and white photograph represents an African American man seated in a chair next to a made bed. Immediately behind him is a chest of drawers with a mirror on top. He holds a crutch in his hands. Two photographs and a jar sit on top of a piece of cloth on top of the chest of drawers. Two bundles of objects hang on the wall above the mirror. Near the bundle at the right of the image hangs a monthly calendar, as well. Below the calendar is a radiator, which is also draped with a cloth and has a few objects on top of it. On the floor of the room is a rug.
This image is created with black ink on paper. It represents a two story house with a porch to the left, built with brick on the bottom story and board on the top. The windows are in various states of disorder and on the top story some of the wood siding has fallen away, revealing the lathe and plaster of the interior walls. There are two windows in the top story and two windows in the bottom story. In front of the bottom right window there is a small outbuilding, also made of brick. There is a figure to the left of the outbuilding and another seated to the right next to a chair. Behind her stands a tree, and a second house stands behind the tree, more obscured than the first. A tree also rises from behind the upper left of the house at the left of the image.
Seated Woman, Rosemarie Beck, crayon lithograph on Arches paper
Funeral Pyre (from the "Beowulf" suite), Rockwell Kent, Printed by George C. Miller, lithograph