Folly Beach, South Carolina, 1999

1999, printed 2000

William Earle Williams

Associated Names
William Earle Williams

Artist, American, born 1950

The image shows an aerial view of a beach with sparse vegetation along the shore. The horizon is at the upper third of the image, where the sky meets a flat landscape. In the foreground, there are twisted, bare tree trunks and branches on the sandy beach. The composition is in black and white, highlighting the contrast between the textures of the trees and the sand. The color scheme consists of different shades of gray.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Dan and Mary Solomon Fund

  • Dimensions

    image: 19.05 × 19.05 cm (7 1/2 × 7 1/2 in.)
    sheet: 25.4 × 20.32 cm (10 × 8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2013.36.2

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

William Earle Williams, Haverford, PA; NGA purchase, 2013.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2013

  • Tell It with Pride: The 54th Massachusetts Regiment and Augustus Saint-Gaudens’ Shaw Memorial, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, 2013 - 2014, no. 79.

Inscriptions

on verso, signed by artist, lower left in graphite: William Earle Williams; by unknown hand, upper left: DBSEM 02; across bottom: Folly Beach SC 1999 A [????] [?????] 54 MASS 4.55 f16 BttBeWa 4.5s PFP 122[0 superimposed on 9]0

Markings

blind stamp, lower center: PHOTOGRAPH / BY / WILLIAM EARLE WILLIAMS

Wikidata ID

Q64169927

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