After a Flash Flood, Rancho Mirage, California

Series TitleAmerican Prospects

Artist Joel Sternfeld (American, born 1944)

DateJuly 1979; printed 1984

MediumDye transfer print

DimensionsImage: 15 3/16 × 18 15/16 inches (38.58 × 48.1 cm)
Sheet: 16 × 20 inches (40.64 × 50.8 cm)

Credit LineGift of Peggy and William Lyons

Object number2022.25.3

SignedSigned on sheet verso, bottom, in black pen.

InscribedOn sheet verso, bottom, in black pen: "Dye Transfer Print", "After a Flash Flood, Rancho Mirage California, July 1979", "12,30,10", "N - July 1979 / P - 1984".

MarkingsOn sheet recto, top margin, in orange pencil: "OK JPS"; On sheet verso, lower left corner, in orange pencil: "2N".

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DescriptionImage of a parked car near palm trees and a damaged parking structure. In the foreground is a steep cliff with a car buried in the hillside. Mountains fill the foggy background.Provenance

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Joel Sternfeld, New York;
Purchsed by Robert Mann Gallery, New York;
Purchased from Robert Mann Gallery by William Lyons and Peggy Lyons, Mission Hills, KS, 2018;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2022.

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