Rick Doerring: If There Is No Ready Answer, If There Is No Logical Explanation For the Pain of Those Dying or the Fear of Those Who Are Ill, For the Grief of Those Left Behind — If There is No Answer, There Is for Us Assuredly a Response. We Must Love Eac – All Works – eMuseum

Tilly Woodward

(American, born 1957)

Rick Doerring: If There Is No Ready Answer, If There Is No Logical Explanation For the Pain of Those Dying or the Fear of Those Who Are Ill, For the Grief of Those Left Behind — If There is No Answer, There Is for Us Assuredly a Response. We Must Love Eac, 1995

Pastel on paper

Des Moines Art Center Permanent Collections; Purchased with funds from Patty and Jim Cownie; Marti and Isak Sivi; Fred and Charlotte Hubbell; Bob and Cherie Shreck; Andrea and James Gordon; Catherine McGarvey; Nancy Montgomery; LaDonna Matthes, 1997.92

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Exhibition HistoryWorld Aids Day

DimensionsFrame: 70 1/8 × 55 3/4 in. (178.1 × 141.6 cm)
Sheet: 60 × 44 7/8 in. (152.4 × 114 cm)
Image: 56 1/4 × 41 1/8 in. (142.9 × 104.5 cm)

Accession Number 1997.92

Classificationswork on paper

Inscriptionsinsc titled (lower, graphite)

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