Music and boys on bars

Series TitleNewspaper Diary

Artist Joanne Leonard (American, born 1940)

DateAugust 11, 2010

MediumInkjet print

DimensionsImage: 12 × 18 inches (30.48 × 45.72 cm)
Sheet: 12 15/16 × 19 inches (32.84 × 48.26 cm)

Credit LineGift of Joanne Leonard

Object number2017.41.7

SignedSigned and dated on sheet verso, lower left, in pencil: [signature] c.2010”

InscribedTitled on sheet verso, lower left, in pencil: “Music of Boys on Bars / From Newspaper Diary Series”

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DescriptionImage of an open book displaying sheet music and a newspaper clipping with a photograph of young boys – some hanging from bars others standing on hands; the caption reads: “Gymnasts 4 to 7 years old testing their talents at a sports school in Zhejiang Province, China.”Provenance

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Joanne Leonard, Ann Arbor, Michigan;

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

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