McLean, Virginia
Series TitleAmerican Propsects
Artist
Joel Sternfeld
(American, born 1944)
DateDecember 4, 1978; printed 2005
MediumDye transfer print
DimensionsImage: 14 3/4 × 19 1/8 inches (37.47 × 48.58 cm)
Sheet: 16 1/2 × 21 1/8 inches (41.91 × 53.66 cm)
Sheet: 16 1/2 × 21 1/8 inches (41.91 × 53.66 cm)
Credit LineGift of Peggy and William Lyons
Object number2022.25.7
SignedSigned on sheet verso, lower right, in black pen.
InscribedOn sheet verso, bottom, in black pen: "Dye Transfer Print", "McLean, Virginia, Decemeber 4, 1978". "N - 1978 / P - 2005".
MarkingsOn sheet verso, upper left, in pencil with black pen: "II 7B 1"
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionImage of a house with flames and dark smoke rising above the roof while a uniformed firefighter shops for pumpkins at the bottom of the hill. Smashed pumpkins fill the foreground of the roadside market.ProvenanceJoel 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.
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.
Copyright© Joel Sternfeld
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Joel Sternfeld
September 1980; printed 1985
2022.25.9
