Standing Bedouin Figure
date: label: Date
content: 1869-1870
name: label: Artist
content: Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Figure study of an individual outfitted in Bedouin clothing. The figure stands among classical ruins strewn upon the ground and leans against a column at left. He glares out of frame to the left. Although wearing the flowing headdress and draped clothing of the Bedouin people, this individual is actually Benjamin Bellows Grant Stone, Church's neighbor who he dressed up to serve as a model. In the background, whispy clouds stretch across a blue sky.
label: Description
content: Verso: Sketches of architectural forms in outline.
place: label: made in
content: Hudson, New York, USA
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Louis P. Church
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1917-4-752-c
objectType: label: Type
content: figures
label: Object Name
content: Drawing
label: Type
content: Drawing
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Oil paint and graphite on brown paper; verso: black crayon
label: Dimensions
content: 35.3 × 26.9 cm (13 7/8 × 10 9/16 in.)