Josh Playing Cops and Robbers, Pigeon Hill

Series TitlePigeon Hill

Artist Jeffrey A. Wolin (American, born 1951)

Date1988; printed 2013

MediumInkjet print with handwritten ink

DimensionsImage: 15 1/2 × 19 5/16 inches (39.37 × 49.05 cm)
Sheet: 17 × 22 inches (43.18 × 55.88 cm)

Credit LineGift of the artist

Object number2025.92.10

SignedSigned with copyright on sheet verso, lower right, in pencil.

InscribedOn image recto, bottom, in silver pen: ""We moved to the Hill when I was 5 - my dad bounced when mom was pregnant. I didn't realize how poor we were, how / little we had. Mom signed me up for Big Brothers when I was 9 or 10. I was matched with Steve - he was late 20's, working on his PhD. / We did homework together, played in the park. I got to see what I could be if I worked hard. We still talk - he was best man at my wedding.""; On sheet verso, bottom, in pencil: ""Josh Playing Cops + Robbers, Pigeon Hill, 1988/2013" 3/8".

Markingsnone

Edition/State/Proofed. 3/8

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DescriptionImage of three boys with arms extended holding toy guns. They stand on a pile of dirt in front of an apartment complex. Several lines are text are written across the bottom of the image.

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