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Lady Reclining on La-Z-Boy Sign. PA 61, Shamokin, Pennsylvania
Lady Reclining on La-Z-Boy Sign. PA 61, Shamokin, Pennsylvania

Lady Reclining on La-Z-Boy Sign. PA 61, Shamokin, Pennsylvania

Former Title(LA-Z-BOY) Reclining Temptress PA 61, Channokin, 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 number2018.56.3
SignedSigned on sheet verso, lower right, in pencil.
InscribedTitled, dated, and editioned on sheet verso, bottom, in pencil: "RECLINING TEMPTRESS, PA 61, CHANNOKIN, PENNSYLVANIA, 1973. #10/25, [printed] 1973"
Markingsnone
Edition/State/Proofed. 10/25
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DescriptionImage of a painted sign for "LA-Z-BOY" featuring a woman with long wavy hair wearing a sleeveless dress and seated in a recliner with her feet up. A bouquet of roses is on the round table beside her.Gallery Label

This image, a cropped portion of a billboard, features a woman dressed in the fashions of the early 1970s. She reclines in a new LA-Z-BOY chair, set against an elegant, draped backdrop. The woman’s position and her sideways “come hither” smile typify the clichéd, seductive pose advertisers have long used when portraying sexually alluring women to sell products.

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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