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On His Back
On His Back

On His Back

Alternate Titles
  • Prayer or Despair
Artist (American, 1916 - 1979)
Datecirca 1953
ClassificationsPrint
MediumLithograph
DimensionsObject: 15 × 10 11/16 in. (38.1 × 27.2 cm) Sheet: 19 13/16 × 13 1/16 in. (50.4 × 33.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of the artist
Object number1967.703
To Each His Own
To Each His Own
Richard A. Florsheim
1949
Image Not Available for Each Man in his Time
Each Man in his Time
Richard A. Florsheim
1951
Image Not Available for Man with knife in his mouth holding a black ox behind his back
Man with knife in his mouth holding a black ox behind his back
Kunisada (Toyokuni III | Kochoro)
c 1850
untitled, man holding another man down with his arms behind his back [Ellis 35(4)]
untitled, man holding another man down with his arms behind his back [Ellis 35(4)]
Fred Ellis
20th c.
(22) untitled [sketch, figure balanced on his hat, holding up a mirror on his back toward a flying bird]
(22) untitled [sketch, figure balanced on his hat, holding up a mirror on his back toward a flying bird]
Boris Artzybasheff
no date
Poem on his Birthday
Poem on his Birthday
Ceri Richards
1965
8. Calavera of the Barber’s Razor. With dull tin-plated razor,/ Raspy as a hog’s back,/ All his customers Don Nachinto shaved and scraped./ But a Saturday came/ When swift Death/ Undesignedly changed it for me/ To a barbecue of bones.
8. Calavera of the Barber’s Razor. With dull tin-plated razor,/ Raspy as a hog’s back,/ All his customers Don Nachinto shaved and scraped./ But a Saturday came/ When swift Death/ Undesignedly changed it for me/ To a barbecue of bones.
José Guadalupe Posada
1947
Peasant with Hands Behind His Back
Peasant with Hands Behind His Back
Adriaen van Ostade
circa 1647
"One belief is that every person is inhabited by a spirit, or ko, which goes travelling while the human body is asleep. If a man should be awakened suddenly - so the belief is- the Ko might not have time to get back into its body and would get even by going around causing trouble. So the people believe a man should be allowed to sleep until he wakes up of his own accord." U.S. Army Pocket Guide to New Caledonia.
"One belief is that every person is inhabited by a spirit, or ko, which goes travelling while the human body is asleep. If a man should be awakened suddenly - so the belief is- the Ko might not have time to get back into its body and would get even by going around causing trouble. So the people believe a man should be allowed to sleep until he wakes up of his own accord." U.S. Army Pocket Guide to New Caledonia.
Alan Dunn
1943
Image Not Available for Horse Biting His Back
Horse Biting His Back
Anna Hyatt Huntington
n.d.
"Then his father paid me ten thousand dollars never to see him again. It sort of gives you back your faith in men, don't it?"
"Then his father paid me ten thousand dollars never to see him again. It sort of gives you back your faith in men, don't it?"
Mary Petty
1931
untitled, doctor standing with hypodermic needle behind his back [Ellis 15(1)]
untitled, doctor standing with hypodermic needle behind his back [Ellis 15(1)]
Fred Ellis
20th c.