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Blythe, California, State prisons

Artist Stephen Tourlentes (American, born 1959)
Date1996; printed 2013
MediumInkjet print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 31 7/8 × 40 1/2 inches (80.96 × 102.87 cm)
Mount: 31 7/8 × 40 1/2 inches (80.96 × 102.87 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2013.63.5
SignedOn gallery label, on mount verso, lower right, in black marker: "Stephen Tourlentes"
Inscribednone
Markingsnone
Edition/State/Proofed. 1/8
On View
Not on view
Collections
DescriptionImage taken at night of a row of palm trees with bright facility lights behind.Exhibition History
Surveillance. The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO. September 16, 2016 – January 29, 2017, no cat.
Provenance
With the Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO by 2013;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2013.
Copyright© Stephen Tourlentes
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