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Series TitleThe Adolescent Comedy
Artist Joseph Sterling (American, 1936 - 2010)
Date1959-1962
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage and sheet (each): 5 7/8 × 9 1/16 inches (14.92 × 23.02 cm)
Mount: 20 × 15 inches (50.8 × 38.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2017.68.206
SignedSigned on mount verso, bottom, in pencil: “Joseph Sterling”
InscribedTyped label attached to mount verso, in black: “THE ADOLESCENT COMEDY / Joseph Sterling / Plate No. 48”
MarkingsOn mount verso, bottom, in pencil: “307-22 / 308-9”; On mount verso, lower right corner, in pencil: “032.436.3.11”.
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DescriptionTwo images presented vertically on a single mount. Both images are of the same young woman. In the top image, she's about to drink from a glass Pepsi bottle as a young man in the background lights a cigarette. In the bottom image, we see her from the front as she walks by several people; she's wearing a collared shirt and a heart pendant.Provenance
The Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2017;   
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2017.
Copyright© Estate of Joseph Sterling
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