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ARTIST ON ART
Joan Giroux
Matthew Freeland Ranger
dob September 6, 1956
dod September 21, 1991
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![A turquoise-toned photograph of a figure at a table, smiling towards the camera, is printed onto the top portion of a cream paper covered with muted red and green stars.](/sites/default/files/styles/full/public/2022-04/03%20Matthew%20dob%20crop-150dpi.jpg?itok=PKRcjU1C)
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![A blue-toned photograph of a figure wearing glasses is printed onto the top portion of a light blue paper. The paper has intersecting horizontal and vertical blue and green lines](/sites/default/files/styles/full/public/2022-04/03%20Matthew%20dod%20crop-150dpi.jpg?itok=t5CJ7x-A)
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![Typewritten page. The text reads: “October 14, 2021, Chicago. Dear Matthew, I’m twice as old now as when you died, a lifetime ago, and just yesterday. I rail against it sometimes, of course to no avail. . . . But I mostly cry. You never really spoke publicly about your illness. In those last years you spent a good deal of time pretending your Karposi Sarcoma lesions were ‘a rash caused by turpentines’ . . . do you know that your family guessed otherwise? I hope you forgive me telling your story. It’s](/sites/default/files/styles/full/public/2022-04/dear%20matthew150dpi.jpg?itok=3JBGjLgq)
Joan Giroux reads Dear Matthew
Joan Giroux
American, b. 1961
Matthew Freeland Ranger, with Joan, dob September 6, 1956, 2019
Serigraphic drawing
31.8 x 25.4 cm. (12 1/2 x 10 in.)
Courtesy of the Artist
Joan Giroux
American, b. 1961
Matthew Freeland Ranger, dod September 21, 1991, 2019
Serigraphic drawing
31.8 x 25.4 cm. (12 1/2 x 10 in.)
Courtesy of the Artist
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