Death Uncovering Its Face and Showing It To Be Life
- Artist: Helen Farnsworth Mears, American, 1871-1916
- Medium: Bronze
- Dates: 1916
- Dimensions: 15 x 8 1/4 x 8 3/4 in. (38.1 x 21 x 22.2 cm)
- Signature: Inscribed on top of base, proper left rear corner: "HELEN FARNSWORTH MEARS. Sc. / © 1918 by MARY MEARS."
- Collections: American Art
- Museum Location:
This item is on view in Luce Visible Storage and Study Center, 5th Floor - Accession Number: 20.990.3
- Credit Line: Gift of Mary Mears
- Image: Back, 20.990.3_back.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2005
- Catalogue Description: Sketch for statue of seated female figure wearing long robes; with her proper right hand holds a gathered bunching of her robes that runs around the back of her neck and across the front of her chest; facing frontally with her proper right foot placed farther forward than her left; seated on a square block; overall light brown patina and loosely modeled surface. Condition: Good
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