Firebreak, above East Highland, California

1982

Robert Adams

Artist, American, born 1937

Robert Adams

A mud road lined with tire tracks moves away from us up the center of this vertical black and white photograph. Scrubby bushes and vegetation line the road to each side. A band of treetops over the ridge gives way to a hazy landscape with a river winding through flat land.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    The Ahmanson Foundation and Gift of Robert and Kerstin Adams

  • Dimensions

    image: 27.4 × 22.8 cm (10 13/16 × 9 in.)
    sheet: 35.4 × 27.7 cm (13 15/16 × 10 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.70.23

  • Copyright

    © Robert Adams, Courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Bibliography

1986

  • Adams, Robert. Los Angeles Spring. New York, 1986: 49.

Inscriptions

on verso, signed by artist, lower right in graphite: Robert Adams 1983; lower left in graphite: From a fire break above / East Highlands, California 1982; stamped, lower center in black ink: Copyright (c) 1982 [date in graphite] by Robert Adams; by unknown hand, lower right, to left of signature, in graphite: RA.1640.Y

Wikidata ID

Q64159227

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