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"Coffee At It's Best" Sign. US 11, Pittston, Pennsylvania
"Coffee At It's Best" Sign. US 11, Pittston, Pennsylvania

"Coffee At It's Best" Sign. US 11, Pittston, Pennsylvania

Former TitleCoffee Cup Sign US 11, West Pittston, PA
Artist Jim Dow (American, born 1942)
Date1973
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 8 × 9 15/16 inches (20.32 × 25.22 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2018.56.1
SignedSigned on sheet verso, lower right, in pencil.
InscribedTitled, dated, and editioned on sheet verso, bottom, in pencil: "COFFEE CUP SIGN, US 11; WEST PITTSTON, PENNSYLVANIA, 1973 #10/25 [printed] 1973."
Markingsnone
Edition/State/Proofed. 10/25
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DescriptionImage of roughly painted sign with coffee cup and saucer; the sign reads “Coffee at it's best". The text and images are outlined in fluorescent tubes.Provenance
The Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2018;   
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2018.
Copyright© Jim Dow
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