About this artwork
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Photography and Media
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Artist
- Joel Sternfeld
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Title
- Cleveland Elementary School, 20 East Fulton Street, Stockton, California, from the series "On This Site: Lanscape in Memoriam"
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality)
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Date
- Made 1994
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Medium
- Chromogenic print
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Inscriptions
- Unmarked recto; inscribed verso, on mount, along bottom edge, in black ink: "JS.221.0 1/7 Cleveland Elementary School, 20 East Fulton Street, Stockton, California, August 1994 N-August 1994 / P-September 1996 Joel Sternfeld" Four hundred children were playing in this schoolyard on January 17, 1989, when a twenty-four-year-old man dressed in combat fatigues entered the grounds through a hole in the fence. Patrick Purdy, who once attended the school, opened fire with two handguns and an AK-47 assault rifle. In a two-minute shooting spree, Purdy killed five children and wounded thirty, before killing himself. In Purdy’s motel room, police found over a hundred small plastic soldiers, tanks, and weapons. From the series, On This Site: Landscape in Memoriam
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Dimensions
- Image/paper: 47.4 × 59.7 cm (18 11/16 × 23 9/16 in.); Mount: 63.2 × 75.9 cm (24 15/16 × 29 15/16 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Jeanne and Richard S. Press
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Reference Number
- 1998.848
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