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View at the museum ↗Veiled Head IV
Philip Hanson1967
- Attribution
- Philip Hanson American, born 1943
- Medium
- Aquatint on ivory wove paper
- Physical dimensions
- Image/plate: 15.8 × 15.9 cm (6 1/4 × 6 5/16 in.); Sheet: 19.3 × 19.6 cm (7 5/8 × 7 3/4 in.)
- Credit line
- Through prior bequest of Vera Berdich
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Source rights statement: © Philip Hanson.
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This small, sinister series of veiled heads reveals the influence of Philip Hanson’s fellow student and future spouse, Christina Ramberg, who is known for her studies of anonymous women with veiled or bound heads and hands. Hanson’s haunting faces are covered with rigid veils. The figures’ mouths, with feral, bared teeth, float impossibly in front of the veils, while fantastical nurse’s caps with adobe-style parapets, similar to the architectural facades in Pavilion Park , sit atop them. As the series progresses, the faces are obscured, leaving the hovering, ghostly visage of the veil as a dramatic afterimage.
Description: Art Institute of Chicago · CC BY 4.0