Death Valley

1995

Mark Ruwedel

Associated Names
Mark Ruwedel

Artist, American, born 1954

The image shows a desert landscape with a dry riverbed made of dirt and rocks stretching into the distance. Rolling hills meet the sky on the horizon, while mountains flank the scene to the right. Sparse vegetation covers the rocky ground, and the color palette is monochromatic with shades of brown and grey.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund

  • Dimensions

    image/sheet: 19 × 24.4 cm (7 1/2 × 9 5/8 in.)
    mount: 16 × 20 cm (6 5/16 × 7 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.47.7

  • Copyright

    © Mark Ruwedel, courtesy of Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mark Ruwedel, Long Beach, CA; (Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA); NGA purchase, 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. 41.

Inscriptions

by artist, lower center on mount below image in graphite: DEATH VALLEY; on verso, signed by artist, lower right in graphite: DEATH VALLEY #1 / Mark Ruwedel 1995; lower left: 4/10; by unknown hand, bottom left in graphite: RUW2125

Wikidata ID

Q64157777

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