Denver, Colorado

1974

Robert Adams

Associated Names
Robert Adams

Artist, American, born 1937

The image shows a small, single-story house with a gable roof and horizontal siding. A white picket fence surrounds the house, and a bush obscures part of a detached garage with a parked vehicle. Utility wires are overhead, and in the distance are low industrial structures or warehouses against the skyline. The image is in grayscale, enhancing the contrasts between light and dark areas.
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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Bibliography

2009

  • Adams, Robert. denver: A Photographic Survey of the Metropolitan Area, 1970–1974. New Haven, 2009: 50.

Inscriptions

on verso of mount, signed by artist, lower right in graphite: Robert Adams; center in graphite: Denver.; lower center in graphite: print c 1974 / RA; by unknown hand, lower right in graphite, to the left of signature: RA.2022.Y; lower left in blue ink on sticker: BMA / 7184.9

Wikidata ID

Q64159241

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