On Signal Hill, overlooking Long Beach, California

1983, printed 1990

Robert Adams

Associated Names
Robert Adams

Artist, American, born 1937

The image shows two thin, leafless trees with delicate, web-like branches reaching up towards the sky. In the distance, there is an urban landscape with buildings gradually fading into the sky. The black and white tones give the photograph a classic quality.
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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon; purchase and gift to NGA, 2006.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1986

  • Adams, Robert. Los Angeles Spring. New York, 1986: 12.

1989

  • Adams, Robert. To Make it Home: Photographs of the American West. Exh. cat. New York, 1989: 125.

Inscriptions

on verso, signed by artist, lower right in graphite: Robert Adams 1990; lower left in graphite: On Signal Hill, / Overlooking Long Beach, California, 1983; lower center stamped in black ink: Copyright (c) by Robert Adams; lower center in graphite: 1986; by unknown hand, lower center in graphite: RA.678.4

Wikidata ID

Q64159188

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