The State Hospital

The sculpture The State Hospital came from an actual experience of Kienholz. He was working in a mental hospital and the conditions of the inmates affected him. He wanted to show and these conditions to people and hopefully change them. The two almost mummified looking figures are restrained to the beds, which are filthy and unfit for anyone. If this truly is what the hospital was like I imagine how awfully the patients were treated.

The State Hospital 1966