Exhausted Renegade Elephant, Woodland, Washington

Series TitleAmerican Prospects

Artist Joel Sternfeld (American, born 1944)

DateJune 1979; printed 1982

MediumDye transfer print

DimensionsImage: 13 9/16 × 17 1/8 inches (34.45 × 43.5 cm)
Sheet: 16 1/16 × 19 15/16 inches (40.8 × 50.64 cm)

Credit LineGift of Peggy and William Lyons

Object number2022.25.11

SignedSigned on sheet verso, lower right, in black pen.

InscribedOn sheet verso, bottom, in black pen: "Dye Transfer Print", "Exhausted Renegade Elephant, Woodland, Washington, June 1979", "N-June 1979 / P - March 1982", "11/50"

MarkingsOn sheet verso, lower right, in orange pencil: "8"; On sheet verso, lower left corner, in black pen: "JS79-6-5D-11/50".

Edition/State/Proofed. 11/50

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DescriptionImage of an elephant lying in the middle of a road with a group of onlookers and a Sheriff gathered nearby. A woman attempts to cool the elephant by spraying him down with water.Provenance

Provenance

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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