COLLECTION NAME:
The AMICA Library
Record
AMICA ID:
CMA_.1967.130.a
AMICA Library Year:
1999
Object Type:
Drawings and Watercolors
Creator Name:
West, Benjamin
Creator Nationality:
North American; American
Creator Role:
artist
Creator Dates/Places:
1738 - 1820
Gender:
M
Creator Name-CRT:
Benjamin West
Title:
Head of a Screaming Man
Title Type:
Primary
View:
Full View
Creation Date:
c. 1792
Creation Start Date:
1787
Creation End Date:
1797
Materials and Techniques:
black crayon
Dimensions:
Sheet: 32.3cm x 40.7cm
AMICA Contributor:
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Owner Location:
Cleveland, Ohio, USA
ID Number:
1967.130.a
Credit Line:
Dudley P. Allen Fund
Context:
After studying in Italy, Benjamin West achieved outstanding success in England, where he served as the second president of the Royal Academy of Arts in London and became a personal friend of King George III. West's earliest paintings were classical and restrained in spirit, but in the 1780s, influenced by the writer Edmund Burke, he became interested in producing grand, terrifying compositions of destruction and apocalypse.
Link to Work:
CMA_.1967.130.b
Related Image Identifier Link:
CMA_.1967.130.a.tif
