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
- U.S. Post Office, 200 North Broadway, Edmond, Oklahoma
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Origin
- United States
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Date
- Made 1994
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Medium
- Chromogenic print, from the series "On This Site: Landscape in Memoriam," edition 1 of 7
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Inscriptions
- Unmarked recto; inscribed verso, on mount, along bottom edge, in black ink: "JS.228.0 1/7 U.S. Post Office, 200 North Broadway, Edmond, Oklahoma, June 1994 N-June 1994 / P-September 1996 Joel Sternfeld" On August 20, 1986, Patrick Henry Sherrill killed fourteen coworkers in a shooting spree that began in this post office parking lot and ended in the mail-sorting room. Sherrill had been reprimanded for poor work performance and threatened with dismissal the day before. The massacre ended when he took his own life. From the series, On This Site: Landscape in Memoriam
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Dimensions
- 47.5 × 59.9 cm (image/paper); 63.5 × 76.3 cm (mount)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Jeanne and Richard S. Press
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Reference Number
- 1997.777.3
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