Carson and Colorado

1997

Mark Ruwedel

Associated Names
Mark Ruwedel

Artist, American, born 1954

The image shows an arid desert landscape with a wide view from ground level. A flat, open desert plain with sparse vegetation is divided by the horizon. Mountains are faintly visible on the left. Large satellite dishes are scattered across the landscape. Fluffy clouds dot the sky. The color palette is monochrome, highlighting the barren terrain's texture and shadows.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Dan and Jeanne Fauci

  • Dimensions

    image/sheet: 19 × 24.1 cm (7 1/2 × 9 1/2 in.)
    mount: 40.64 × 50.8 cm (16 × 20 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.112.1

  • Copyright

    © Mark Ruwedel, courtesy of Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Dan Fauci, Pacific Palisades, CA; 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. 38.

Inscriptions

by artist, lower center on mount below image in graphite: CARSON AND COLORADO; on verso, signed by artist, lower right in graphite: CARSON AND COLORADO #6 / Mark Ruwedel 97; by unknown hand, bottom left in graphite: RUW2158-D

Wikidata ID

Q64157769

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