Oregon California and Eastern

1998

Mark Ruwedel

Associated Names
Mark Ruwedel

Artist, American, born 1954

The image shows a straight dirt road extending into the distance. The horizon line is situated about one-third from the top of the image. Several distant hills are visible along the horizon. The road has a vanishing point, with converging edges. Vegetation including tall grasses and sparse bushes lines the road. A fence line runs along the right side into the distance. The photo is black and white with a cloudy sky above.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund

  • Dimensions

    image/sheet: 18.8 × 24.1 cm (7 3/8 × 9 1/2 in.)
    mount: 40.64 × 50.8 cm (16 × 20 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2012.47.10

  • Series Title

    Westward the Course of Empire

  • 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. 44.

Inscriptions

by artist, lower center on mount below image in graphite: OREGON CALIFORNIA AND EASTERN; on verso, signed by artist, lower right in graphite: OREGON CALIFORNIA AND EASTERN #1 / Mark Ruwedel 1998; lower left: 6/10; by unknown hand, bottom left in graphite: RUW1971

Wikidata ID

Q64157781

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