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View, Magic Mountain, Valencia, California,
1977

Joe Deal, American, 1947–2010

x1990-63.4

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Title

View, Magic Mountain, Valencia, California

Dates

1977

Maker

Joe Deal

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 28.2 x 28.7 cm (11 1/8 x 11 5/16 in.) sheet: 50.5 x 40.4 cm (19 7/8 x 15 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Museum purchase, gift of the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, with a matching gift from Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.

Object Number

x1990-63.4

Place Made

North America, United States, California, Los Angeles

Place Depicted

North America, United States, California, Valencia, Six Flags Magic Mountain

Inscription

Titled, signed, and numbered in graphite, verso along lower edge: View, Magic Mountain, Valencia, California, 1977 J. Deal / #1379

Culture

American

Type

photographs, gelatin silver prints, black-and-white photographs

Techniques

gelatin silver process

Subject

amusement parks, amusement rides, roller coasters, grass, trees

"Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1990," <em>Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University </em>50, no. 1 (1991): p. 16-69., p. 40

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Citation

Joe Deal (American, 1947–2010), View, Magic Mountain, Valencia, California, 1977. Gelatin silver print; 28.2 x 28.7 cm (image), 50.5 x 40.4 cm (sheet). Museum purchase, gift of the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, with a matching gift from Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. (x1990-63.4) https://artmuseum-beta.princeton.edu/art/collections/objects/17640

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