Sunburned GSP #475 (San Francisco Bay)

2011

Chris McCaw

Associated Names
Chris McCaw

Artist, American, born 1971

This abstract image features a single diagonal line slicing through the composition. The line extends from the top left to the lower right across two sections separated by a thin horizontal division. The surrounding darker tones create a sense of vast emptiness, resembling a night sky or a shadowy sea. A reflection is visible below, suggesting familiarity with sights like a pathway of light reflected on water and creating an illusion of depth and distance.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    two gelatin silver paper negatives

  • Credit Line

    Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund

  • Dimensions

    framed: 50.01 × 34.13 × 3.9 cm (19 11/16 × 13 7/16 × 1 9/16 in.)
    image (top): 20.2 × 25 cm (7 15/16 × 9 13/16 in.)
    image (bottom): 20.3 × 25 cm (8 × 9 13/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2013.65.2

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Chris McCaw, NGA purchase (through Yossi Milo Gallery, New York), 2013.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

-1

  • Marking Time, Yossi Milo Gallery, New York, November 29, 2012 - January 19, 2013.

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. 18.

Wikidata ID

Q64145823

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