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Original artwork description:

A group of 19th century physicians and scholars stand around a corpse on a gurney in a darkened examination room. The living characters fade into the shadows while their deceased subject seems to glow otherwise the grim darkness envelops the space to the point of abstraction via obscurity.

Materials used:

oil on canvas

Tags:
#black and #horizontal #mortality #doctors and #vintage education 

Death as an Instrument of Learning (2015) Oil painting
by Shelton Walsmith

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A group of 19th century physicians and scholars stand around a corpse on a gurney in a darkened examination room. The living characters fade into the shadows while their deceased subject seems to glow otherwise the grim darkness envelops the space to the point of abstraction via obscurity.

Materials used:

oil on canvas

Tags:
#black and #horizontal #mortality #doctors and #vintage education 
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Shelton Walsmith is a painter and photographer working in Brooklyn, New York. His work has been published by The Paris Review, Knopf, Vintage, Rizzoli Books, Paris Vogue, Harper Collins, New... Read more

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