Lakewood, Colorado

1973

Robert Adams

Associated Names
Robert Adams

Artist, American, born 1937

This is a black and white photograph of a department store interior featuring a mannequin. The mannequin is dressed in a classic outfit and is displayed on a raised platform in a jewelry section of the store. Below the mannequin, various jewelry items are showcased. A crowd of shoppers can be seen in the foreground, adding a sense of activity. The ceiling has a grid of fluorescent lights.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund and Gift of Robert and Kerstin Adams

  • Dimensions

    image: 14.3 × 15.1 cm (5 5/8 × 5 15/16 in.)
    mount: 39.4 × 35.6 cm (15 1/2 × 14 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.70.42

  • Series Title

    What We Bought

  • 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

1989

  • Adams, Robert. To Make it Home: Photographs of the American West. Exh. cat. New York, 1989: 60.

2009

  • Adams, Robert. denver: A Photographic Survey of the Metropolitan Area, 1970–1974. New Haven, 2009: 93.

Inscriptions

on verso of mount, signed by artist, lower right in graphite: Robert Adams 1974; lower left in graphite: Lakewood, Colorado, 1973; by unknown hand, lower right in graphite, to the left of signature: RA.2109.Y; stamped, lower center in black ink: Copyright (c) 1977 [date in graphite] by Robert Adams

Wikidata ID

Q64159247

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