Man and I.V.

Inscription: Signed, inscribed, and dated (verso): Steers / “Man & I.V.” / ‘94

[Richard Anderson Fine Arts, New York, 1994; sold in 1994 to private collection]; private collection (from 1994); private collection (until 2022; their gift to MMA)

New York. Richard Anderson Gallery. "Hugh Steers," November 4–December 3, 1994, no catalogue.

Holland Cotter. "Art after Stonewall: 12 Artists Interviewed." Art in America 82 (June 1994), pp. 58–59, ill. (color), includes the artist's identification of this work as part of the "Hospital Man" series, comparing the figure and composition to a Diego Velázquez or Anthony van Dyke aristocratic picture.

Jameson Currier. "Hugh Steers: Portrait of an Artist in the Epidemic." Body Positive (August 1994), p. 17, ill.

Holland Cotter. "Art in Review: Hugh Steers." New York Times (November 4, 1994), p. C30.

Linda Yablonsky. "Palette Initiative." Out (December 1994–January 1995), p. 60, speaking of the "Hospital Man" series generally, states that the figure is "unequivocally trapped in the isolation of his illness and unalterably defiant in the face of death".

"Hugh Steers, 32, Figurative Painter." New York Times (March 4, 1995), p. 25, calls the figure in the "Hospital Man" series [including this one] "both an avenging and a guardian angel".

Cynthia Carr. "'. . . as if painting it will make it become real': A Life of Hugh Steers." Hugh Steers: The Complete Paintings, 1983–1994. New York, 2015, pp. 46, 50.

James Smalls. "The Soft Glow of Brutality." Hugh Steers: The Complete Paintings, 1983–1994. New York, 2015, pp. 73–76, ill. (color), describes the "Hospital Man" as the artist's "allegorical alter ego".

Dale Peck et al. "Catalogué Raisonne of Paintings." Hugh Steers: The Complete Paintings, 1983–1994. New York, 2015, p. 237, no. CR549, ill. (color), locates it in a private collection.

James Cassell. "A Certain Gorgeous Bleakness." Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide 25 (May/June 2018), p. 18.

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