Burning oil sludge, north of Denver, Colorado, 1974, printed 1983

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series Title

To Make it Home

Medium

gelatin silver print

Dimensions

image: 38 × 47.8 cm (14 15/16 × 18 13/16 in.)

sheet: 40.4 × 50.5 cm (15 7/8 × 19 7/8 in.)

Credit Line

Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund and Gift of Robert and Kerstin Adams

Accession Number

2012.70.157

Artists / Makers

Robert Adams (artist) American, born 1937

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Inscription

on verso, signed by artist, lower right in graphite: Robert Adams 1983; lower left in graphite: 5/30 / North of Denver, Colorado, 1974; by unknown hand, lower center in graphite: RA.4146.Y

Provenance

Robert Adams, Astoria, OR; NGA purchase (through Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco) and gift, 2012.

Associated Names

Adams, Robert

Bibliography

1989: Adams, Robert. To Make it Home: Photographs of the American West. Exh. cat. New York, 1989: 65.

2009: Adams, Robert. denver: A Photographic Survey of the Metropolitan Area, 1970–1974. New Haven, 2009: 126.