Canyon Country, California

Series TitleAmerican Prospects

Artist Joel Sternfeld (American, born 1944)

DateJune 1978; printed 2005

MediumDye transfer print

DimensionsImage: 13 9/16 × 17 1/4 inches (34.45 × 43.82 cm)
Sheet: 16 1/16 × 19 15/16 inches (40.8 × 50.64 cm)

Credit LineGift of Peggy and William Lyons

Object number2022.25.4

SignedSigned on sheet verso, lower right, in black pen.

InscribedOn sheet verso, bottom, in black pen: "Dye Transfer Print", "Canyon Country, California, June 1983", "N - June 1983 / P - April 1984"

MarkingsOn sheet verso, lower left corner, in orange pencil: "5"; On sheet verso, lower right, in black pen: "JS83-6-2D-4/25"

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DescriptionImage of a man seated next to a young girl with his arm around her. He’s wearing a striped shirt with khaki shorts and holds a cigar in his left hand. The girl is dressed in a striped romper and looks to the left. On the right, a winding road passes through a residential neighborhood and leads to sandstone-colored mountains.Provenance

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Joel Sternfeld, New York;
Purchsed by Robert Mann Gallery, New York;
Purchased from Robert Mann Gallery by William Lyons and Peggy Lyons, Mission Hills, KS, 2018;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2022.

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