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Neahkahnie Mountain, Oregon

2004

Robert Adams

Associated Names

Robert Adams

Artist, American, born 1937

The image shows several large leaves with ragged edges and holes against a plain background. The color palette is monochrome, featuring various shades of gray. The leaves are arranged across the center and right side of the image, occupying most of the frame's space, with subtle shadows cast in the background.

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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: 23 × 15.3 cm (9 1/16 × 6 in.)
sheet: 35.4 × 27.8 cm (13 15/16 × 10 15/16 in.)
Accession Number

2012.70.94
Series Title

Questions for an Overcast Day

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Adams, Robert

Bibliography

2007

Adams, Robert. Questions for an Overcast Day. San Francisco, 2007: 63.

Inscriptions

on verso, signed by artist, lower right in graphite: Robert Adams 2006; by unknown hand, lower left in graphite: RA.3020.Y-DD

Wikidata ID

Q64159306

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