Emerging Infectious Diseases

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Emerging Infectious Diseases

1999

Eric Avery (American, born 1948) Printed by M. D. Williams (American, 20th century)

In 1948, with financial support from the pharmaceutical company Smith Kline and French Laboratories (now GlaxoSmithKline), the Museum initiated the Ars Medica Collection of works of art on paper with medical subjects; it now includes more than 2,500 prints, drawings, and photographs. Eric Avery, an ars medica artist par excellence, works both as a psychiatrist with AIDS patients and as a printmaker who uses art to educate, inspire, provoke, and console those affected with the disease. This recent linocut enlarges and transforms a late fifteenth-century woodcut by depicting an isolation room with patients suffering from such present-day afflictions as multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis, HIV, hepatitis C, and West Nile virus.

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Object Details

Titles:

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Date:

1999

Artists:

Eric Avery (American, born 1948) Printed by M. D. Williams (American, 20th century)

Medium:

Linocut

Dimensions:

Block: 35 1/16 x 23 11/16 inches (89.1 x 60.2 cm) Sheet: 38 3/8 x 25 5/8 inches (97.5 x 65.1 cm)

Classification:

Prints

Credit Line:

Purchased with funds contributed by William H. Helfand for The William H. Helfand Collection, 2002

Accession Number:

2002-189-3

Geography:

Made in United States, North and Central America

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