Nevada Short Line

1998

Mark Ruwedel

Associated Names
Mark Ruwedel

Artist, American, born 1954

The image features a landscape with open land stretching out into the distance. The horizon is near the top, separating the sky from the land. Distant hills can be seen along the horizon, meeting the flat plains. The terrain is relatively uniform in height, with the sky occupying most of the upper part of the image. The scene is in black and white, emphasizing a timeless quality, and the textures show gentle undulations of the land. The foreground is filled with grasses and shrubs, extending into the distance where the land levels out. The monochromatic color scheme adds to the calmness of the landscape, highlighting light and shadow interplay.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Dan and Jeanne Fauci

  • Dimensions

    image/sheet: 19.1 × 24.3 cm (7 1/2 × 9 9/16 in.)
    mount: 40.64 × 50.8 cm (16 × 20 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.112.2

  • Copyright

    © Mark Ruwedel, courtesy of Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Dan Fauci, Pacific Palisades, CA; gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2015

  • The Memory of Time: Contemporary Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Acquired with the Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2015, no. 48.

Inscriptions

by artist, lower center on mount below image in graphite: NEVADA SHORT LINE; on verso, signed by artist, lower right in graphite: NEVADA SHORT LINE #1 / Mark Ruwedel 1998; by unknown hand, bottom left in graphite: RUW2150-8

Wikidata ID

Q64157770

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