Off Road Traffic Pattern along the Northwest Shore of the Great Salt Lake, Utah

1988

Emmet Gowin

Associated Names
Emmet Gowin

Artist, American, born 1941

The image displays a network of swirling lines and circular shapes creating an abstract pattern. The loops and curves intersect and overlap, conveying a sense of energy and motion. Darker areas contrast with the overall design. The composition suggests a dynamic map of invisible pathways.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Jane P. Watkins

  • Dimensions

    image: 24.7 × 24.9 cm (9 3/4 × 9 13/16 in.)
    sheet: 27.8 × 35.4 cm (10 15/16 × 13 15/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.185.12

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Emmet Gowin, Newton, PA; (Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York), 2015; NGA purchase, 2015.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2015

  • Celebrating Photography at the National Gallery of Art: Recent Gifts, Washington, DC, November 1, 2015–February 28, 2016

Bibliography

2002

  • Reynolds, Jock. Emmet Gowin: Changing the Earth: Aerial Photographs. New Haven, 2002: 12.

Inscriptions

on verso, signed by artist, lower center in graphite: Emmet Gowin; by artist, top center in graphite: [illegible printer's notes] 4[circled] [illegible printer's notes] 21@8 [sketch of image in graphite] [sketch of image in graphite]; lower center in graphite underlined: OFF ROAD TRAFFIC PATTERN ALONG THE NORTHWEST SHORE of the GREAT SALT LAKE, 1988; by unknown hand, top right in graphite: EG. 492.23; bottom left in graphite: EG492.

Wikidata ID

Q64147372

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