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American,
b. 1967
Blindness
2001
Ink, tea, and furniture varnish on paper
80.25 x 52 x 1 in.
Gift of the Marie Eccles Caine Foundation
2003.41
Despite the abject setting and the compromised position in which the subject of Charles Benefiel’s richly detailed drawing finds himself, he maintains a proudly erect if awkward posture. This winged man, presumably a fallen angel, is being held, naked and cornered, in a seemingly ancient prison cell. Pale and ectomorphic, he nonetheless throws his shoulders back and holds his head high. Standing on tiptoe, legs crossed at the knees, he clasps his hands over his crotch like Adam after the Fall.
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