Good Lord! How Long Have you Been Standing There?

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Photo by Mark DiOrio.
Good Lord! How Long Have you Been Standing There?
Photo by Mark DiOrio.
Artist/Maker (American, 1904 – 1989)
Datec. 1930-1950
MediumCrayon with ink wash on paper
DimensionsComposition: 10 1/4 × 7 3/4 in. (26 × 19.7 cm) Sheet: 13 9/16 × 9 3/4 in. (34.4 × 24.8 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mrs. Dorothy Pilkington
Object number2008.2.11
Not on view
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Provenance prior to 1983: Private collection of Walter Pilkington
2008: Hamilton College (Fred L. Emerson Gallery), by gift of Dorothy Pilkington, widow of Walter Pilkington
Signature Recto, lower right (black crayon): "Ned / HIL / TON"
Verso, upper left (pencil): "Ned Hilton"
Inscribed Inscribed in pencil above composition from left to right: [arrow pointing left] 2 1/8" [arrow pointing right]; entitled in pencil at center beneath composition: "GOOD LORD! HOW LONG HAVE YOU [underlined] BEEN STANDING THERE?" 1 blue / Rush [underlined] / go ahead [underlined]; signed in pencil on verso at upper left: Ned Hilton / 92 Charles St., / N.Y.C.; inscribed in pencil on verso at lower right: H10160-H
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