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A child in a red outfit stands between two shadowy, puppet-like figures.

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Street Scene: Memory of Detroit (for Joyce Carol Oates)

Ellen Phelan

1992

Medium
Oil on linen
Dimensions
Overall: 39 3/4 × 38 3/4 in. (101 × 98.4 cm)
Accession number
2014.274
Acquired
2014
Credit line
Gift of Marsha and Jeffrey Miro
Reproduction credit
© Ellen Phelan / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Department
collection

About this work

Ellen Phelan, Street Scene: Memory of Detroit (for Joyce Carol Oates), 1992. Oil on linen, overall: 39 3/4 × 38 3/4 in. (101 × 98.4 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Marsha and Jeffrey Miro 2014.274. © Ellen Phelan / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

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