Battleground of Resaca, Georgia, No 3

1864

George N. Barnard

Artist, American, 1819 - 1902

Damaged branches of leafless trees twist against a blank sky in this horizonal black and white photograph. Blasted and fallen trunks lie in scrubby growth along the bottom third of the picture. A structure is visible on a far hill near the horizon, just right of center.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    albumen print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of the UBS Art Collection

  • Dimensions

    image/sheet: 25.5 × 35.8 cm (10 1/16 × 14 1/8 in.)
    mount: 40.9 × 50 cm (16 1/8 × 19 11/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2023.30.9

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Lee Gallery, Winchester, MA); Paine Webber & Co., New York, 15 September 1995; UBS, New York, 2000; gift to NGA, 2023.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

lower center on mount printed in black ink: Photo from nature By. G.N. Barnard. / BATTLE GROUND OF RESACCA [sic], GA, No 3.; by unknown hand, bottom right in graphite: PW7174; on verso, by unknown hand, top left in graphite: N659; bottom right: GNB.136.Y

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