About this artwork
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Photography and Media
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Artist
- Joel Sternfeld
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Title
- State Highway 74, 7.3 miles south of the former Hub Cafe, outside Crescent, Oklahoma, from the series "On This Site: Landscape in Memoriam"
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Place
- United States (Artist's nationality)
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Date
- Made 1993
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Medium
- Chromogenic print
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Inscriptions
- Inscribed and signed recto, on mount, lower right, below image, in black ink: "State Highway 74, 7.3 miles South of the former Hub cafe, Crescent City, Oklahoma. (August 1993) / 1/7 Joel Sternfeld"; unmarked verso Karen Silkwood, a worker at the Cimarron River Plutonium Plant, had gathered potentially incriminating evidence about the falsification of quality-control documents. On November 13, 1974, on her way to a meeting with a New York Times reporter, Silkwood’s car skidded off Highway 74 killing her instantly. When friends arrived at the scene shortly after the crash, the manila folder she had intended to give the Times reporter was missing. The Oklahoma State Police determined that Silkwood, under the influence of barbiturates, had fallen asleep at the wheel. Independent investigators concluded that Silkwood had been forced off the road by another vehicle. From the series, On This Site: Landscape in Memoriam
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Dimensions
- Image: 48.1 × 59.8 cm (18 15/16 × 23 9/16 in.); Mount: 71.3 × 82.8 cm (28 1/8 × 32 5/8 in.)
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Credit Line
- Acquired from the Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University, through an Anonymous Gift
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Reference Number
- 1997.271
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