Winter, northwest across dunes and tidal marsh inside the South Jetty, Clatsop County, Oregon

1990

Robert Adams

Associated Names
Robert Adams

Artist, American, born 1937

The image shows a landscape with grassy terrain in the foreground leading towards a distant horizon. The horizon features faint silhouettes of landforms, suggesting hills or low mountains. Dramatic, voluminous clouds stretch across the scene overhead. The image is in black and white, creating a monochromatic palette using varying shades of gray. Light and shadow capture the details of the clouds and the textures of the grass below. The composition conveys a sense of vast openness with a dramatic sky above and distant elements on the horizon.
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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Bibliography

1995

  • Adams, Robert. West from the Columbia: Views at the River Mouth. New York, 1995: 21.

Inscriptions

on verso, signed by artist, lower right in graphite: Robert Adams 1993; by unknown hand, lower right, to left of signature, in graphite: RA.3303.Y (b)

Wikidata ID

Q64159325

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