Polling Place, West Oakland, California

c. 1963–1971

Joanne Leonard

Associated Names
Joanne Leonard

Artist, American, born 1940

This is a photograph of a wooden house with an exterior staircase. The image shows the façade of a two-story house with white wooden cladding and a stairway leading up to a central dark door. Windows with closed curtains flank the door, with the house number "1692" visible on the door frame. The lower level includes a wooden garage door and another entrance. Several children are playing on and around the steps, and in the lower right corner, an individual is interacting with an American flag on a pole stand.
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Provenance

Joanne Leonard, Ann Arbor, MI; gift to NGA, 2020.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, signed by artist, top right in graphite: Joanne Leonard; lower left: Joanne Leonard / JOANNE LEONARD; top left: PB 8; center in blue ink: The poling [sic] place / West Oakland / Calif.; bottom left in graphite: Box 43; bottom right artist stamp in black ink

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