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
- Grandy's Restaurant, 8 Uvalde Avenue, Chanelview, Texas, 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 1995
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Medium
- Chromogenic print
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Inscriptions
- Unmarked recto; inscribed verso, on mount, along bottom edge, in black ink: "JS.220.0 Grandy's Restaurant, 8 Uvalde Avenue, Chanelview, Texas, January 1995 N-January 1995 / P-September 1996 Joel Sternfeld / 1/7" For years Wanda Holloway had been eager to further her daughter Shanna’s ambitions to become a cheerleader. Believing that Shanna’s chances were impeded by Amber Heath, a rival, she plotted to have Amber’s mother killed. She hoped that the loss would be so overwhelming that Amber would be unable to compete. Wanda Holloway made a payment for the contract killing of Verna Heath in the parking lot of this Grandy’s. The contract was never carried out, and she was convicted of soliciting capital murder and sentenced to fifteen years in prison. From the series, On This Site: Landscape in Memoriam
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Dimensions
- Image/paper: 47.4 × 59.7 cm (18 11/16 × 23 9/16 in.); Mount: 63.1 × 76.4 cm (24 7/8 × 30 1/8 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Jeanne and Richard S. Press
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Reference Number
- 1998.849
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