Aisle 2, Row 3, Seat 5, Texas Theatre, 231 West Jefferson Boulevard, Dallas, Texas, from the series "On This Site: Landscape in Memoriam"
Place
United States (Artist's nationality:)
Date
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Inscribed and signed recto, on mount, lower right, below image, in black ink: "Aisle 2, Row 3, Seat 5, Texas Theater, 231 West Jefferson Street, Dallas Texas. / (November 1993) / 1/7 Joel Sternfeld"; unmarked verso
Lee Harvey Oswald was sitting in this seat when he was arrested by Dallas police at 1:50 P.M., November 22, 1963. The double feature playing that day was Cry of Battle and War Is Hell.
From the series, On This Site: Landscape in Memoriam
Acquired from the Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University, through an Anonymous Gift
Reference Number
1997.269
Extended information about this artwork
Art Institute of Chicago, “On This Site,” December 14, 1996 - April 18, 1997.
PaceWildensteinMacGill, Beverly Hills, CA, “On This Site,” April 25 -June 6, 1997.
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