Tallies

Series TitleNewspaper Diary

Artist Joanne Leonard (American, born 1940)

Printer Michigan Imaging (American)

DateJuly 29, 2010; printed 2017

MediumInkjet print

DimensionsImage: 20 7/16 × 31 inches (51.87 × 78.74 cm)
Sheet: 24 × 36 1/16 inches (60.96 × 91.59 cm)

Credit LineGift of Joanne Leonard

Object number2017.41.10

SignedSigned and dated on sheet verso, lower right, in pencil: "Joanne Leonard 2010 / (printed 2017)"

InscribedOn sheet verso, lower right, in pencil: ""Tallies""

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DescriptionImage of an open book, The Pursuit of Happiness, revealing a page with text on right and image of rows of chalked tally marks on left. On top of the book rests a newspaper clipping with an image of deceased bodies lying in open rows of cubbies with orange tags hanging from the white body bags.Provenance

Provenance

Joanne Leonard, Ann Arbor, Michigan;

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

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