James Dean Pruner
United States, 1951-1987 Dinner of Dollars at the Temptation to Sell the Soul, 1984
Portfolio: Man as Machine
Lithograph
Museum purchase: Lucy Shaw Schultz Fund, 1991.0048.06
After studying art at Fort Hays State University in the early 1970s, Pruner became an independent artist based at his Stafford County, Kansas, farm. Pruner’s Man as Machine portfolio recounts his experiences with street people and civic authorities while he was on the road in Los Angeles in 1983
