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Series TitleThe Adolescent Comedy

Artist Joseph Sterling (American, 1936 - 2010)

Date1959-1962

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage and sheet (top): 6 × 9 1/16 inches (15.24 × 23.02 cm)
Image and sheet (bottom): 9 × 5 15/16 inches (22.86 × 15.08 cm)
Mount: 20 × 15 inches (50.8 × 38.1 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation

Object number2017.68.173

SignedSigned on mount verso, bottom, in pencil: “Joseph Sterling”

InscribedTyped label attached to mount verso, in black: “THE ADOLESCENT COMEDY / Joseph Sterling / Plate No. 15”

MarkingsOn mount verso, bottom, in pencil: “TOP – 409-38 / BOTTOM – 1199-43”; On mount verso, lower right corner, in pencil: “032.423.3.11”.

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DescriptionTwo photographs mounted vertically on a single mount. Top image is of a young man wearing tshirt holding a cigarette in his hand and hanging his arm out the window of a car with “Victoria” logo on the door. The bottom image is of the backs of three young men seated on roof of car with open trunk. Inside the trunk are shiny carburetors and a handmade sign which reads “CHEV CARBS FOR SALE”.Provenance

Provenance

The Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2017;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2017.

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