Patrick, Palm Sunday, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

2002, printed 2006

Alec Soth

Associated Names
Alec Soth

Artist, American, born 1969

The image shows a man standing on a gravel surface. He is facing the camera and has short, dark hair with a receding hairline. The man has a neutral expression and weathered skin. He is wearing a light gray suit with a red and white tie, black shoes, and holding a palm leaf in his right arm and papers or a book in his left hand. The background includes a metal structure or trailer, wooden planks, loose construction materials, blooming purple wisteria hanging from branches, and residential structures and greenery along a road with a parked white sedan in the distance.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    chromogenic print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon

  • Dimensions

    image: 125.73 × 100.33 cm (49 1/2 × 39 1/2 in.)
    framed: 128.27 × 102.87 × 2.54 cm (50 1/2 × 40 1/2 × 1 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2019.170.2

  • Series Title

    Sleeping by the Mississippi

  • Copyright

    © Alec Soth and Weinstein Hammons Gallery

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Weinstein Gallery, Minneapolis); Mary and Dan Solomon, Monarch Beach, CA; gift to NGA, 2019.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

signed by artist on label affixed to the verso of aluminum mount: Alec Soth / Patrick, Palm Sunday, Baton Rouge, 2006 / AP 1/2

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