Many Glacier, Canada

Summer 1931

Marjorie Content

Associated Names
Marjorie Content

Artist, American, 1895 - 1984

The image displays a landscape with distant hills under a cloudy sky. The horizon line is in the lower third of the image, with dark hills in the foreground and a dynamic cloud pattern above. The color palette consists of deep grays and soft creams.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    R. K. Mellon Family Foundation

  • Dimensions

    image: 7.2 x 9.3 cm (2 13/16 x 3 11/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2009.117.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Estate of Marjorie Content; (Jill Quasha, New York, acquired 1993); NGA purchase, 2009.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1994

  • Quasha, Jill. Marjorie Content: Photographs. New York: W.W. Norton, 1994.

Inscriptions

on verso, by artist in graphite: [artist's printing notations]; by Susan L. Sandberg: 31.

Wikidata ID

Q64157752

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