Eugene Richards
Nelida Bagley helps her son Sgt. José Pequeño from his bed at the West Roxbury Veterans Medical Center in Massachusetts.

Nelida Bagley helps her son Sgt. José  Pequeño from his bed at the West Roxbury Veterans Medical Center in Massachusetts.

© Eugene Richards

Nelida Bagley helps her son Sgt. José Pequeño from his bed at the West Roxbury Veterans Medical Center in Massachusetts.
Nelida Bagley helps her son Sgt. José  Pequeño from his bed at the West Roxbury Veterans Medical Center in Massachusetts.
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Nelida Bagley helps her son Sgt. José Pequeño from his bed at the West Roxbury Veterans Medical Center in Massachusetts.
  • from the series War Is Personal
Date2008, printed 2011
Place depictedBoston, Massachusetts, United States
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 15 1/8 × 22 15/16 in. (38.5 × 58.3 cm)
Sheet: 19 7/8 × 23 7/8 in. (50.5 × 60.7 cm)
Frame (outer): 22 5/8 × 30 5/8 × 1 3/4 in. (57.4 × 77.7 × 4.4 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by James Edward Maloney and Carey Chambers Maloney II
Object number2012.78
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenanceThe artist, Brooklyn; purchased by MFAH, 2012.
Exhibition History"WAR/PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 11 November, 2012 - 3 February, 2013.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
In pencil on sheet verso, lower right: Sgt. José Pequeño and his mother, Nelinda Bagley / Eugene Richards 2008/2011 / 5/30
In pencil on sheet verso, lower right: Eugene Richards

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