Day 320, Survey I, Sectors 3 and 4

1967

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Associated Names
National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Artist, American, est. 1958

The image shows a grid layout with intersecting straight lines and circles forming a pattern across the upper section. Beneath this grid, overlapping dark and light rectangular shapes densely populate the space, creating a mosaic-like structure. These elements form an abstract visual with a resemblance to a jigsaw puzzle or aerial map. At the bottom right, a sequence of numbers adds to the structured complexity of the arrangement.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    78 gelatin silver prints, staples, paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Joyce and Robert B. Menschel

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 77 x 36.3 cm (30 5/16 x 14 5/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2002.86.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Colorado School of Mining, Golden, CO; Colorado Science Center, Denver, CO; (unknown book dealer, Denver, CO); Randy Liebermann, Fairfax, VA; (Gary Edwards Gallery, Washington, DC, by 2001); NGA purchase, 2002.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2019

  • By the Light of the Silvery Moon: A Century of Lunar Photographs, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2019 - 2020, unnumbered catalogue.

Bibliography

1993

  • Woodward, Richard B. "People and Ideas: The Final Frontier?." Aperture (Winter 1993), pp. 70-72.

Wikidata ID

Q64158374

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