Joel Sternfeld

The Happy Land Social Club, 1959 Southern Boulevard, the Bronx, New York, June 1993
1993, printed 1996

A weathered urban scene with a red wall covered in graffiti and a metal roll-down gate. Various memorial items, including crosses, flowers, and candles, are placed against the wall and gate, suggesting a makeshift memorial site.

A weathered urban scene with a red wall covered in graffiti and a metal roll-down gate. Various memorial items, including crosses, flowers, and candles, are placed against the wall and gate, suggesting a makeshift memorial site.

Not on view

Date
1993, printed 1996

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Chromogenic print

Dimensions
Overall (on mat board): 28 × 32 1/16in. (71.1 × 81.4 cm) Sheet: 18 9/16 × 23 13/16in. (47.1 × 60.5 cm)

Accession number
2004.441a-b

Series
On This Site

Edition
6/7

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Jeanne and Richard S. Press

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

API
artworks/18762

Joel Sternfeld
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