Untitled (Riesling, the Southern Most Ridge)

November 1993

Joseph Bartscherer

Artist, American, 1954 - 2020

Branches of a grape vine spray out like an asterisk against wire strung between posts in this horizontal black and white photograph. Long, pale grasses create cloud-like banks hiding the feet of the posts and the ground. Rows of posts extend into the distance like a miniature forest.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of the UBS Art Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 45.72 × 58.42 cm (18 × 23 in.)
    sheet: 50.8 × 60.33 cm (20 × 23 3/4 in.)
    mount: 55.88 × 70.49 cm (22 × 27 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2023.30.15

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Joseph Bartscherer, New York; Paine Webber & Co., New York, 4 April 1994; UBS, New York, 2000; gift to NGA, 2023.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

signed by artist, along right edge of mount, in graphite: Joseph Bartscherer '93 RIESLING, NOVEMBER. The Southernmost Ridge of Saddle Mountain is Broken By the Columbia River at Beverly Gap. / neg. #A871101b.

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