Crystal Ball

Artist Julie Blackmon (American, born 1966)

Date2006

MediumInkjet print

DimensionsImage: 22 1/16 × 22 1/8 inches (56.03 × 56.21 cm)
Sheet: 23 1/4 × 24 5/8 inches (59.06 × 62.56 cm)
Mat: 31 × 31 inches (78.74 × 78.74 cm)

Credit LineGift of Susan Steinhauser and Daniel Greenberg

Object number2018.69.5

SignedSigned on sheet recto, lower right, in black pen: "Julie Blackmon"

InscribedTitled, dated, and editioned on sheet recto, lower right, in black pen: "Crystal Ball, '06 / #4/25"

Markingsnone

Edition/State/Proofed. 4/25

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DescriptionImage of woman reading Vanity Fair magazine while seated with legs crossed on a blue velvet chair; she is barefoot and wearing black and white striped leggings. Beside her, a little girl wearing a green dress, striped tights, and red shoes stands on the radiator and looks out the window. On the round table in the foreground, there is an apple with a knife in it, a crystal ball on a black pedestal, a loaf of bread, and a glass being filled with green liquid from a 2-liter bottle. Three cut profile silhouette portraits of children are framed and hanging vertically on the wall to the right of the window.Provenance

Provenance

Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, Newbury Park, CA;

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

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