Joseph Bartscherer

American, 1954 - 2020

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A leafless branch growing up a wooden post is heavy with pale apples in this horizontal black and white photograph. The ground in the orchard is white with snow. Rows of wire trellises strung between more wooden posts line a lane to our left. The posts and tree branches create a spiky horizon just over halfway up the composition.
Joseph Bartscherer, Untitled (Golden Delicious), December 1993, gelatin silver print, Gift of the UBS Art Collection, 2023.30.16

Untitled (Golden Delicious)

Joseph Bartscherer · December 1993 · gelatin silver print ·  Accession ID  2023.30.16

Trees trained to wires strung between posts flank a grassy lane filled with fallen apples in this horizontal black and white photograph. The rows of posts and the lane converge in the distance, in front of a hazy mountain along the horizon, which comes nearly to the top of this composition.
Joseph Bartscherer, Untitled (Apple Row), October 1993, gelatin silver print, Gift of the UBS Art Collection, 2023.30.11

Untitled (Apple Row)

Joseph Bartscherer · October 1993 · gelatin silver print ·  Accession ID  2023.30.11

Bunches of grapes, some frosted and some deflated like raisins, blend into vines, branches, and a lighter background of more vines and grasses in this horizontal black and white photograph.
Joseph Bartscherer, Untitled (Gewurztraminer), October 1993, gelatin silver print, Gift of the UBS Art Collection, 2023.30.13

Untitled (Gewurztraminer)

Joseph Bartscherer · October 1993 · gelatin silver print ·  Accession ID  2023.30.13

Bunches of grapes hang heavily from a woody vine in this horizontal black and white photograph. Some of the grapes are darker and some lighter, and all appear to be frosted. Tall grasses and perhaps other vines are very blurry in the background.
Joseph Bartscherer, Untitled (Riesling), November 1993, gelatin silver print, Gift of the UBS Art Collection, 2023.30.10

Untitled (Riesling)

Joseph Bartscherer · November 1993 · gelatin silver print ·  Accession ID  2023.30.10

Bunches of grapes hang from vines growing up wire trellises in this horizontal black and white photograph. The trellises span the composition, angling away to our left.
Joseph Bartscherer, Untitled (Raisining Riesling), November 1993, gelatin silver print, Gift of the UBS Art Collection, 2023.30.14

Untitled (Raisining Riesling)

Joseph Bartscherer · November 1993 · gelatin silver print ·  Accession ID  2023.30.14

Branches of a grape vine spray out like an asterisk against wire strung between posts in this horizontal black and white photograph. Long, pale grasses create cloud-like banks hiding the feet of the posts and the ground. Rows of posts extend into the distance like a miniature forest.
Joseph Bartscherer, Untitled (Riesling, the Southern Most Ridge), November 1993, gelatin silver print, Gift of the UBS Art Collection, 2023.30.15

Untitled (Riesling, the Southern Most Ridge)

Joseph Bartscherer · November 1993 · gelatin silver print ·  Accession ID  2023.30.15

Fat apples lie on dirt and tall grass under the canopies of apple trees planted in rows in this horizontal black and white photograph. From low to the ground, we look down a row of low trees trained onto wire trellises held in place with wooden posts.
Joseph Bartscherer, Untitled (Gala), October 1992, gelatin silver print, Gift of the UBS Art Collection, 2023.30.18

Untitled (Gala)

Joseph Bartscherer · October 1992 · gelatin silver print ·  Accession ID  2023.30.18

A branch laden with pale apples has partially broken from the trunk so apples that had grown at the top of the branch now brush the ground in this horizontal black and white photograph. Dark blotches mar the smooth surfaces of some apples. A wall of dense trees extends into the distance next to a grassy lane, to our left.
Joseph Bartscherer, Untitled (Sunburn), September 1992, gelatin silver print, Gift of the UBS Art Collection, 2023.30.17

Untitled (Sunburn)

Joseph Bartscherer · September 1992 · gelatin silver print ·  Accession ID  2023.30.17

This black and white photograph has three paragraphs of black text on a silvery-white background. The text reads as follows: "There were mustang here in the beginning I know because Leon Nunnally got off the train to Seattle in 1937 and took a job chasing them for the Northern Pacific. Even before the railroad they ran cattle on this land and when it came they pastured sheep too. Wild rye, shoulder and head tall, grew right to the river. Spiked wheat, Idaho fescue, Indian rice spread everywhere. The Wahluke Slope was serviceable range until the bunchgrass was finished. Once the horses were gone it was empty country. On the map the Grand Coulee Dam brought water to the entire Columbia Basin from day one, but it was not until after the war that they ever filled Banks Lake and not until 1961 that we saw any water on this side of Saddle Mountain. That was way over on the eastern end of the Slope. Every few years then would come another extension of the canal, another block of sage broken out. You could climb the basalts at the top of O Road and see in the wind just how far the water had come by watching where the dust blew up over new ground. To anyone contemplating apples or especially vines the Mattawa acreage has laid like the promised land awaiting the blessing of regular rain. Its soil is sand on a gravel bed, textbook sterile and full of air. No root rot, no grubs, no past. Make it what you need. It sits high with a long southern face tipped to the sun, inclined enough to spill the cold. One hundred and ninety frost-free days."
Joseph Bartscherer, Untitled (There Were Mustang…), 1992, gelatin silver print, Gift of the UBS Art Collection, 2023.30.12

Untitled (There Were Mustang…)

Joseph Bartscherer · 1992 · gelatin silver print ·  Accession ID  2023.30.12