Description
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.
Accession Number
195846
Medium
Color etching and drypoint (printed à la poupee in black and purple), on ivory wove paper
Dimensions
Image/plate: 10.6 × 8.3 cm (4 3/16 × 3 5/16 in.); Sheet: 14 × 11.6 cm (5 9/16 × 4 5/8 in.)
Classification
Credit Line
Through prior bequest of Vera Berdich