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Sunflowers

Artist Edward Steichen (American, born Luxembourg, 1879 - 1973)
Date1964
MediumDye destruction print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 15 3/4 × 16 1/2 inches (40.01 × 41.91 cm)
Mount: 16 1/8 × 17 inches (40.96 × 43.18 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.2957
SignedSigned and dated on image recto, lower right, in gold: "Steichen c 64"
Inscribednone
Markingsnone
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DescriptionBouquet of yellow sunflowers against a black background.Provenance
Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1969;
Given by Hallmark Cards, Inc. to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Copyright© The Estate of Edward Steichen / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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