Ruby

© Robert Stackhouse. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction o…
© Robert Stackhouse
Ruby
© Robert Stackhouse. Photograph and digital image © Delaware Art Museum. Not for reproduction or publication.

Ruby

Date1987
Artist (American sculptor, born 1942)
MediumWatercolor, charcoal, and graphite on paper
Dimensions40 x 60 in. (101.6 x 152.4 cm)
frame: 45 1/2 x 65 1/2 in. (115.6 x 166.4 cm)
Credit LineAcquisition Fund, 1987
Object number1987-8
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextAccording to the artist, the structure in the background, which resembles the bowels of a ship, is a passageway referring to death and transition. The structure also resembles Stackhouse's sculpture, Delaware Passage (1991) on view in the Copeland Sculpture Garden near the East Wing of the building.