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Skulls and bones on ground
Skulls and bones on ground

Skulls and bones on ground

Creator Henryk Ross (Polish, 1910 - 1991)
Date1940-1944
Mediumgelatin silver print
Dimensions8.7 x 11.5 cm (3 7/16 x 4 1/2 in.)
Credit LineGift from Archive of Modern Conflict, 2007
Category
    Object number2007/2298
    Copyright
    © Art Gallery of Ontario
    LocationNot currently on display

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    Skulls and bones on ground
    Skulls and bones on ground
    Henryk Ross
    1940-1944
    Photograph
    Image Not Available for Rather morbid, this stall, for it shows a display of bones and skins, and the smell is not too good either. The unaccustomed purchaser gets rather a shock, coming across a stall of grinning skulls, but they say that skulls are very effective both as charm
    Rather morbid, this stall, for it shows a display of bones and skins, and the smell is not too good either. The unaccustomed purchaser gets rather a shock, coming across a stall of grinning skulls, but they say that skulls are very effective both as charm
    Emil Otto Hoppé
    1930s
    Photograph
    Image Not Available for A horrible array of skulls, bones, the heads and beaks of dead birds, but together with herbs and roots they are said to be the most effective for curing ills of all kinds.
    A horrible array of skulls, bones, the heads and beaks of dead birds, but together with herbs and roots they are said to be the most effective for curing ills of all kinds.
    Emil Otto Hoppé
    1930s
    Photograph
    Image Not Available for A display of bones and skulls.
    A display of bones and skulls.
    Atlantic Photo
    unknown
    Photograph
    Skull on pile of bones
    Skull on pile of bones
    Henryk Ross
    1940-1944
    Photograph
    Image Not Available for Elephant Skull Plate IX (Bones have great variety in section and subtle transition of one shape into another)
    Elephant Skull Plate IX (Bones have great variety in section and subtle transition of one shape into another)
    Henry Moore
    1970
    Print
    Image Not Available for Elephant Skull Plate X (Bones have marvellous structural strength and hard tenseness of form)
    Elephant Skull Plate X (Bones have marvellous structural strength and hard tenseness of form)
    Henry Moore
    1970
    Print
    Image Not Available for Elephant Skull Plate XIV (Though still only line-drawing, I wanted to show the skull's massiveness)
    Elephant Skull Plate XIV (Though still only line-drawing, I wanted to show the skull's massiveness)
    Henry Moore
    1970
    Print
    Image Not Available for Elephant Skull Plate XIII (Here I was searching for the skull's internal structure)
    Elephant Skull Plate XIII (Here I was searching for the skull's internal structure)
    Henry Moore
    1970
    Print
    Image Not Available for In an apse the bones are kept of the executed who are refused a grave.
    In an apse the bones are kept of the executed who are refused a grave.
    Presse-Photo
    1930s
    Photograph
    Buffalo Bones Gathered from the Prairie for Shipment At Gull Lake, N.W.T. [Recto]
    Buffalo Bones Gathered from the Prairie for Shipment At Gull Lake, N.W.T. [Recto]
    Richard Henry Trueman
    1890-1894
    Photograph
    Image Not Available for Untitled (Bones of Animals and Shells)
    Untitled (Bones of Animals and Shells)
    Petr Nadvorník
    c. 1995
    Photograph
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