Longmont, Colorado

1981

Robert Adams

Associated Names
Robert Adams

Artist, American, born 1937

The image shows an elderly couple walking together. The man on the left is standing upright, wearing glasses, with short, neatly styled hair, a button-up shirt, cardigan, and high-waisted trousers. The woman on his right is slightly hunched, also wearing glasses, with short, curly hair, a button-up blouse with a floral pattern, trousers, and holding a handbag. Around them are parked cars, and in the background, there are street lamps with clear skies above.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund and Gift of Robert and Kerstin Adams

  • Dimensions

    image: 19 × 15.8 cm (7 1/2 × 6 1/4 in.)
    sheet: 35.4 × 27.7 cm (13 15/16 × 10 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.70.34

  • Series Title

    Our Lives and Our Children

  • Copyright

    © Robert Adams, Courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Robert Adams, Astoria, OR; NGA purchase (through Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco) and gift, 2012.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1984

  • Adams, Robert. Our Lives and Our Children: Photographs Taken near the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant. Millerton, 1984, 28.

Inscriptions

on verso, signed by artist, lower right in graphite: Robert Adams 1981; by unknown hand, lower right in graphite, below signature: RA.1902.Y

Wikidata ID

Q64159239

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