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A Joy Forever, Roadside, Florida
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A Joy Forever, Roadside, Florida

Portfolio TitleAmerican Roads
Artist Jim Alinder (American, born 1941)
Date1974
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 8 1/16 × 17 7/8 inches (20.48 × 45.4 cm)
Sheet: 15 13/16 × 19 13/16 inches (40.16 × 50.32 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2016.75.1.1
SignedSigned on sheet recto, lower right, in pencil: "Jim Alinder"
InscribedTitled and dated on sheet verso, bottom, in pencil: "Roadside, florida, 1974"
Markingsnone
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DescriptionOne of twenty photographs included in American Roads portfolio. Image of a thin tree trunk with words reading " A thing of beauty is a joy forever" perched on it's outstretched branches. It appears near the edge of barbed wire fence in a vast field with trees dotting the horizon and large billowy clouds scattered across the sky.Provenance
The Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2016;   
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2016.
Copyright© James Alinder
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