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Series TitleThe Adolescent Comedy
Artist Joseph Sterling (American, 1936 - 2010)
Date1959-1962
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 6 × 9 inches (15.24 × 22.86 cm)
Mount: 20 × 15 inches (50.8 × 38.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2017.68.184
SignedSigned on mount verso, bottom, in pencil: “Joseph Sterling”
InscribedTyped label attached to mount verso, in black: “THE ADOLESCENT COMEDY / Joseph Sterling / Plate No. 26”
MarkingsOn mount verso, bottom, in pencil: “125-2”; On mount verso, lower right, in pencil: “032.430.3.11”.
On View
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DescriptionImage of four young men walking along the beach. Two are wearing straw hats and the one in the foreground is wearing sunglasses while smoking a cigarette.Provenance
The Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2017;   
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2017.
Copyright© Estate of Joseph Sterling
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