Antelope Valley

2007

Mark Ruwedel

Associated Names
Mark Ruwedel

Artist, American, born 1954

The image depicts an abandoned house in a flat landscape. The house is weathered with graffiti on its walls and boarded-up windows. In the background, there are scrubby plants or low hills. The sky is plain and light-toned. The overall tone of the image is bleak and desolate.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund

  • Dimensions

    image/sheet: 26.2 × 34.2 cm (10 5/16 × 13 7/16 in.)
    mount: 50.8 × 60.96 cm (20 × 24 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.47.2

  • Copyright

    © Mark Ruwedel, courtesy of Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mark Ruwedel, Long Beach, CA; (Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA); NGA purchase, 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. 75.

Inscriptions

by artist, lower center on mount below image in graphite: ANTELOPE VALLEY; on verso, signed by artist, lower right in graphite: DUSK #6 / (Antelope Valley #65) / Mark Ruwedel 2007; lower left: 2/5; by unknown hand, bottom left in graphite: RUW2129

Wikidata ID

Q64157772

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