Ben Culwell
Sleep Sailor Seventy-Six Days at Sea

Sleep Sailor  Seventy-Six Days at Sea
Sleep Sailor Seventy-Six Days at Sea
Sleep Sailor  Seventy-Six Days at Sea
ArtistAmerican, 1918–1992
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Sleep Sailor Seventy-Six Days at Sea
Date1942
MediumMixed media on paper
DimensionsSheet: 6 1/8 × 8 in. (15.6 × 20.3 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by William and Virginia Camfield
Object number91.66
Not on view

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Provenance Research Ongoing Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
verso lower left in pencil: 126; bottom left to right in ink: Sleep Sailor 76 days at sea 4/42

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