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