Mesa Verde, Colorado

1923

Laura Adams Armer

Artist, American, 1874 - 1963

We look sharply down at the ruins of stone walls and structures tucked under an overhanging rock close to us, as the land drops vertiginously away in this vertical black and white photograph. Some of the walls are straight and some curved to follow the contours of what appears to be a cliff face. A few scrubby branches grow from the rock at the top center of this composition. We look almost straight down onto a tree-filled canyon to our left.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of the UBS Art Collection

  • Dimensions

    image/sheet: 34.1 × 24.7 cm (13 7/16 × 9 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2023.30.7

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Charles Isaacs Photographs Inc., New York); Paine Webber & Co., New York, 28 September 1998; UBS, New York, 2000; gift to NGA, 2023.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

signed by artist, top left in black ink: Laura [by unknown hand, written over Laura: Austin] Adams Armer c.; on verso, by unknown hand, bottom right in graphite: PW7214

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