Jerrold and Oldest Child, Pigeon Hill

Series TitlePigeon Hill

Artist Jeffrey A. Wolin (American, born 1951)

Date1989; printed 2013

MediumInkjet print with handwritten ink

DimensionsImage: 15 1/2 × 19 1/8 inches (39.37 × 48.58 cm)
Sheet: 17 × 22 inches (43.18 × 55.88 cm)

Credit LineGift of the artist

Object number2025.92.9

SignedSigned with copyright on sheet verso, bottom, in pencil.

InscribedOn image recto, lower right, in silver pen: ""That's Lisa Marie I'm holding - / my first bundle of joy. I took / her everywhere. I was a traveling / maintenance man going form / the IU Stadium just east of / the Hill to the mall on the / other side of town. I had a / grocery cart and I'd fill it / with tools and painting supplies. / I'd mow grass, clean gutters / and pools. Most days when / I came home from hustling I'd / go out back and work in my / shop fixing things -- I was happy.""; On sheet verso, bottom, in pencil: ""Jerrold + oldest Child, Pigeon Hill, 1989/2013" 3/8".

Markingsnone

Edition/State/Proofed. 3/8

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DescriptionProfile image of a man holding a baby up to this face. The man wears a ball cap, and the baby has on a hooded sweatshirt. Several lines of text are written in the lower right corner of the image.

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