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Primary TitleThe Age of Adolescence

Artist Joseph Sterling (American, 1936 - 2010)

Date1959-1964

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 9 1/16 × 6 1/16 inches (23.01 × 15.39 cm)
Sheet: 9 7/8 × 7 15/16 inches (25.07 × 20.14 cm)

Credit LineGift of Deborah Sterling

Object number2017.64.17

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Inscribednone

MarkingsOn sheet verso, center, in pencil: "419-28"; On sheet verso, bottom, in pencil: "032.960.3.12"

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DescriptionDark image of a young woman embracing a man. Light shines onto the left half her face and body; the man faces away from the viewer and is barely visible. The background is completely black.Provenance

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.

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