Elkmont Campground, Smokey Mountain National Park, Tennessee

Series TitleAmerican Prospects

Artist Joel Sternfeld (American, born 1944)

DateNovember 1980; printed 1985

MediumDye transfer print

DimensionsImage: 13 1/2 × 17 3/16 inches (34.29 × 43.66 cm)
Sheet: 16 × 19 7/8 inches (40.64 × 50.48 cm)

Credit LineGift of Peggy and William Lyons

Object number2022.25.16

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

InscribedOn sheet verso, bottom, in black pen: "Dye Transfer Print", "Elkmont Campground, Smokey Mountain National Park, Tennessee, November 1980", "N - November 1980 / P - 1985"

MarkingsOn sheet verso, upper right corner, in orange pencil: "3".

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DescriptionImage of a person wearing a plaid shirt and jeans seated in a lawn chair under a makeshift tarp next to a picnic table. The setting is a forested area with fallen leaves covering the ground.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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