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Robert Morris, Frank Jelly Nash, Serigraph

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Robert Morris, Frank Jelly Nash, Serigraph
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Artist: Robert Morris

Title: A Final Tomb For Frank “Jelly” Nash

Year: 1980

Medium: Serigraph, signed and numbered in pencil

Edition: 180

Paper Size: 26 x 32 inches



Blind Stamp: Styria Studio



Text: A 1933 Chevrolet and a 1932 Dodge sedan are found and fully restored.
They are placed in the parking lot of the Kansas City, Missouri, Union
Station in precisely the places they occupied the morning of June 17, 1933
(with the help of UPI photographs and old police records this can be
determined). Frank "Jelly" Nash's body --whereever it now is-- is
disinterred and buried beneath the 1933 Chevrolet. Mr. Nash, who had
reputedly robbed with the Barkers, was being transferred from a train, the
Missouri Pacific Flyer, to the Chevrolet, for transport to Leavenworth
Penitentiary, when he was machine-gunned to death by unknown assailants.
Also killed in or around the two cars in what was to become known as the
"Kansas City Massacre" were FBI agent Raymond Caffrey, police chief Otto
Reed, detectives W.J. "Red" Grooms and Frank Hermanson. Plaster casts of
still existing groups of bullet holes in the station walls can be made and
sold inside the station, together with a pamphlet describing the event.



Printer: Styria Studios, NYC



Reference: Fig. 42 in "Robert Morris: Estampes et Multiples 1952-1998,
Catalogue Raisonne"

by Christophe Cherix, Geneve et Chatou 1999.