Janis Joplin
July 27, 1968
Artist

Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image/sheet: 21.3 × 17.5 cm (8 3/8 × 6 7/8 in.)
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Accession
2018.177.606
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(sale, RMY Auctions, Wilder, ID); Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2018.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
on verso, top left stamped in red ink: S-R; top left: AUG 29 1991; top left: AUG 30 1993; by unknown hand, top right in blue ink: Joplin, Janis; upper left stamped in red ink perpendicular: MAR 23 1987; upper center stamped in red ink: CHRONICLE / OCT 5 1970; center stamped in red ink perpendicular: CHRONICLE / DEC 19 1979; center stamped in red ink: DRAMA; by unknown hand, center in graphite inverted: 2-Janis; lower center in blue ink: Janis Joplin / Singer / [illegible] 10-4-70; lower right stamped in red ink: CHRONICLE / MAY 25 1977; by unknown hand, bottom center in graphite: 1 col Janis; bottom center in blue ink: Janis Joplin; bottom center stamped in red ink: DRAMA