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Adelyn, Ash Wednesday, New Orleans, Louisiana
Adelyn, Ash Wednesday, New Orleans, Louisiana

Adelyn, Ash Wednesday, New Orleans, Louisiana

Artist Alec Soth American, born 1969
Date2005
MediumChromogenic print
Dimensions16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
Frame: 24 × 27 1/2in. (61 × 69.9cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineGift of Allen G. Thomas Jr. in honor of Lawrence J. Wheeler
Object number2014.14.59
On View
Not on view
ProvenanceCreated New Orleans, 2005; collection of the artist, Minneapolis; [Katrina fundraiser]; Allen G. Thomas Jr., Wilson, NC; given to NCMA, 2014.
Published ReferencesAlec Soth, Alec Soth: Sleeping by the Mississippi (Göttingen: Steidl, 2004), illus. (color) 76.

Alex Soth’s America, Siri Engberg, ed. (exhibition catalogue) (Minneapolis: Walter Art Center, 2010), illus. (color) 71.

“Private Eye: Allen G. Thomas Jr. Photography Collection,” in North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Fall 2014), illus. (color) 28.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Wanderlust: Photography by Alec Soth," December 23, 2012-June 30, 2013.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Private Eye: Allen G. Thomas Jr. Photography Collection," September 13, 2014–March 22, 2015.
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