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© Joseph Wheelwright. Photo by Mark DiOrio.
Getting to Heaven
© Joseph Wheelwright. Photo by Mark DiOrio.
Artist/Maker (American, born 1948)
Date1994
MediumEtching on paper with airbrushed oil paint
DimensionsSheet: 14 × 11 in. (35.6 × 27.9 cm)
Credit LineTranferred from the Hamilton College Collection
Object number2025.9.15
Not on view
DescriptionFrom the portfolio forward: "This graduate of Yale University and the Rhode Island School of Design is currently working with carved stones, tree figures cast into bronze, and large heads fabricated from natural materials such as stones, shells and bones. Wheelwright's public sculpture may be seen at the DeCordova Sculpture Park and the Charlestown Navy Yard. Joe's print, 'Getting to Heaven,' is an etching of floating figures with a sun and a moon over cloud­scapes airbrushed in oil paint on paper."
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Signature Recto, bottom right (pencil): "Joseph Wheelwright"
Inscribed Recto, bottom left (pencil): "32/40"
Recto, bottom center (pencil): "Getting To Heaven"
Recto, bottom right (pencil): "1994"
Venice: Piazza San Marco
Venice: Piazza San Marco
Unknown artist
Date: 1875-1900
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: S2018.2.136
© David Kennedy Cutler. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton C…
Mount
David Kennedy Cutler
Date: 2011
Medium: Archival inkjet on Japanese paper, data of compact disks, and pigmented cotton
Object number: 2016.16
Croppies, Lie Down, from "Harper's Weekly"
Croppies, Lie Down, from "Harper's Weekly"
Thomas Nast
Date: published October 7, 1876
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.341
Artwork is in the public domain. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton…
Rattle Lid Basket
Date: c. 1875-1900
Medium: Natural and dyed spruce root and natural and dyed grass
Object number: 1984.474a-b
Photograph by Dave Revette.
Funerary urn
Date: c. 350-600 CE
Medium: Terracotta with remnants of pigment
Object number: 2002.16
Venice: The Stonemason's Yard
Venice: The Stonemason's Yard
Unknown artist
Date: 1875-1900
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: S2018.2.138
Photograph by John Bentham.
Studies for Sculpture
Henry Moore
Date: 1946
Medium: Pencil, wax crayon, coloured crayon, wash, pen and ink, chinagraph on paper
Object number: 1996.15.39
Photograph by John Bentham.
i will never smile again
Vanessa German
Date: 2016
Medium: Mixed-media assemblage
Object number: 2016.15
Photograph by John Bentham.
Plate XI, from the series "Elephant Skull"
Henry Moore
Date: 1969 (published 1970)
Medium: Etching
Object number: 1988.21
Artwork is in the public domain. Image courtesy of the Ruth and Elmer Museum of Art at Hamilton…
Fragment of a relief from the Northwest Palace at Nimrud
Date: c. 883-859 B.C.E.
Medium: Gypsum with remnants of red pigment
Object number: 1868.5
Photo by John Bentham.
Ball Players, plate 21 from "North American Indian Portfolio"
George Catlin
Date: 1845
Medium: Hand-colored lithograph on paper
Object number: 1959.123
Photograph by Dave Revette.
Plaque depicting Virabhadra and associated deities
Date: 19th century
Medium: Brass
Object number: 1994.40