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Clearcut, Humbug Mountain, Clatsop County, Oregon

1999–2003

Robert Adams

Associated Names

Robert Adams

Artist, American, born 1937

The image shows a landscape with scattered logs, branches, and tree stumps. The horizon is low, with distant hills visible at the top. The sky is clear, and the color palette is monochromatic with shades of gray and black. The details are sharp, highlighting textures of the timber and terrain.

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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: 22.7 × 28.1 cm (8 15/16 × 11 1/16 in.)
sheet: 27.8 × 35.4 cm (10 15/16 × 13 15/16 in.)
Accession Number

2012.70.98

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Adams, Robert

Inscriptions

on verso, signed by artist, lower right in graphite: Robert Adams 2003; by unknown hand, lower right in graphite, to left of signature: RA.3029.Y

Wikidata ID

Q64159311

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