Polaris Over Lake Mead, Nevada, March 14-15, 1997 11:56PM-4:15AM, 1997

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series Title

Desert Cantos XXI: Heavenly Bodies

Medium

chromogenic print

Dimensions

image: 120.65 × 154.31 cm (47 1/2 × 60 3/4 in.)

framed: 122.56 × 155.58 × 3.81 cm (48 1/4 × 61 1/4 × 1 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Lannan Foundation

Accession Number

1999.88.2

Artists / Makers

Richard Misrach (artist) American, born 1949

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Inscription

on verso, signed by artist, lower left in black ink: POLARIS OVER LAKE MEAD / 3. 14. 97 / 11:56 P.M. - 4:15 A.M. / Richard Misrach 1997 F; engraved along left edge of frame perpendicular: POLARIS OVER LAKE MEAD; right edge of frame:11:56 P.M. - 4:15 A.M 10.23.96 3.14.97

Provenance

(Curt Marcus Gallery, New York); Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, NM, 1997; gift to NGA, 1999.

Associated Names

Curt Marcus Gallery
Lannan Foundation

Bibliography

1999: Desert Cantos/Cantos de Desierto: 1979-1999. Exh. cat. Palacio de los Condes de Gabia. Granada, Spain, 1999: 135.