Central Pacific

1999

Mark Ruwedel

Associated Names
Mark Ruwedel

Artist, American, born 1954

The image shows a desolate landscape from an elevated perspective. A narrow sandy path extends towards distant mountain ranges that create a silhouette against the sky. The color palette is monochromatic, with shades of grey and light and shadow playing across the terrain and sky. Wooden debris and sparse vegetation are scattered on the barren ground. The path leads towards the mountains, conveying vast openness and natural starkness. Soft, wispy clouds fill the sky.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Peter T. Barbur

  • Dimensions

    image/sheet: 18.9 × 24.2 cm (7 7/16 × 9 1/2 in.)
    mount: 40.64 × 50.8 cm (16 × 20 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.103.2

  • Copyright

    © Mark Ruwedel, courtesy of Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Peter Barbur, New York; gift to NGA, 2012.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2015

  • The Memory of Time: Contemporary Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Acquired with the Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2015, no. 45.

Inscriptions

by artist, lower center on mount below image in graphite: CENTRAL PACIFIC; on verso, signed by artist, lower right in graphite: CENTRAL PACIFIC #18 / Mark Ruwedel 1999; lower left: A/P

Wikidata ID

Q64157767

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