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Series TitlePictus Twistus
Artist Joseph Sterling (American, 1936 - 2010)
Date1977
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 9 1/8 × 21 11/16 inches (23.19 × 55.09 cm)
Sheet: 12 × 23 13/16 inches (30.48 × 60.5 cm)
Credit LineGift of Deborah Sterling
Object number2017.64.5
SignedSigned on sheet verso, center, in pencil: "Joseph Sterling"
InscribedTitled and dated on sheet verso, center, in pencil: "PARIS '77"
MarkingsOn sheet verso, bottom, in pencil: "4183-34 L-2 1/2"; On sheet verso, lower left corner, in pencil: "032.073.3.02".
On View
Not on view
Collections
DescriptionImage with woman's leg outstretched near railing. The right two thirds of the image is abstract with light, feathery blurred lines in between black voids.Provenance
Inherited from the artist by his wife Deborah Sterling, Mundelein, IL, 2010;
Her gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2017.
Copyright© Estate of Joseph Sterling
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