Men in Boats: Immigrants

Series TitleNewspaper Diary

Artist Joanne Leonard (American, born 1940)

DateApril 19, 2016

MediumInkjet print

DimensionsImage: 12 3/8 × 18 9/16 inches (31.45 × 47.14 cm)
Sheet: 12 15/16 × 19 inches (32.84 × 48.26 cm)

Credit LineGift of Joanne Leonard

Object number2017.41.6

SignedSigned and dated on sheet verso, lower right, in pencil: “[signature] 2017 / signed 2017”.

InscribedTitled and dated on sheet verso, lower left, in pencil: “Men in Boats: immigrants, 2016 / (made while in Rome, Italy) / Newspaper Diary Series”

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DescriptionImage of an open book with a reproduction of a painting showing figures wearing long robes standing in a boat in the middle of the sea; they look up towards a figure in the sky who is holding a white flag over their boat. On the left is a newspaper clipping with an image of an overly packed raft in the middle of the ocean; the raft is taking on water and some people are wearing life jackets.Provenance

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Joanne Leonard, Ann Arbor, Michigan;

her gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2017.

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