Denver

1980

Robert Adams

Associated Names
Robert Adams

Artist, American, born 1937

The image contains a person sitting on a bench with their upper body turned to the left, facing away from the camera. The person has long hair, a straight nose, and a focused expression. They wear a light-colored top. In the background, there is a bench, a newspaper vending machine labeled "NEWS," a parking structure, a building marked "WESTERN FEDERAL SAVINGS," an empty street, a utility pole, trees, and additional buildings.
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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: 26 × 22.6 cm (10 1/4 × 8 7/8 in.)
    mount: 39.4 × 35.6 cm (15 1/2 × 14 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.70.118

  • 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, 40.

Inscriptions

on verso of mount, signed by artist, lower right in graphite: Robert Adams; lower left in graphite: Denver, Colorado (Print probably made in the / early 1980s ----- RA); by unknown hand, lower center in graphite, to the left of signature: RA.3446.Y 22

Wikidata ID

Q64159335

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