Interior, Grain Elevator, Chapin, Iowa

Artist David Plowden (American, born 1932)

Date1986

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 10 5/8 × 9 15/16 inches (27 × 25.22 cm)
Sheet: 14 × 11 inches (35.56 × 27.94 cm)

Credit LineGift of Sandra S. Plowden

Object number2019.8.16

SignedSigned and dated on sheet verso, center, in pencil: "[signature] 1986"

InscribedOn sheet verso, center, in pencil: "Interior Grain Elevator / Chapin, Iowa"

MarkingsOn sheet verso, top, in pencil: "686-1968-S-3 / 33 f16 1:4"; On sheet verso, lower left, in pencil: "15" [circled]

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DescriptionImage of a room with concrete floors and a metal bin with wheels and a scale mounted on the back. From above, two tubes meet in the center and empty out into the bin; one side is labeled corn, the other oats. A push broom is leaning against a large wooden post with a wall-mounted thermometer advertising Hires Root Beer.Provenance

Provenance

David Plowden, Winnetka, IL;

his gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2018.

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