Serpent Mound, Ohio

1982

Marilyn Bridges

Artist, American, born 1948

From an aerial perspective, we look down onto a forest clearing with a squiggling, coiling, mounded ridge in this horizontal black and white photograph. Each end of the line spirals into itself, and the line curves up and down like a sound wave in between.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of the UBS Art Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 48.3 × 57.9 cm (19 × 22 13/16 in.)
    sheet: 50.6 × 60.5 cm (19 15/16 × 23 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2023.30.29

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Marilyn Bridges, New York; Paine Webber & Co., New York, 22 June 1993; UBS, New York, 2000; gift to NGA, 2023.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, signed by artist, center in graphite: Serpent Mound, Ohio / © Marilyn Bridges 1982

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