Aeration Pond, Toxic Water Treatment Facility, Pine Bluff, Arkansas

1989, printed 2004

Emmet Gowin

Associated Names
Emmet Gowin

Artist, American, born 1941

The image features large, circular shapes within a rectangular space bordered by thin dark lines. The circles have darker centers and lighter edges, resembling petal-like structures. The overall composition is abstract with surrounding parallel lines and rectangular patterns.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Jane P. Watkins

  • Dimensions

    image: 24.4 × 24.3 cm (9 5/8 × 9 9/16 in.)
    sheet: 35.3 × 27.6 cm (13 7/8 × 10 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.185.15

  • Series Title

    Changing the Earth

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Bibliography

2002

  • Reynolds, Jock. Emmet Gowin: Changing the Earth: Aerial Photographs. New Haven, 2002: 35.

Inscriptions

on verso, signed by artist, lower center in graphite: Emmet Gowin; by artist, across top in graphite: 45. jan. 04 3[circled] soft 20 @8 + [illegible printer's notes] + 4 [illegible printer's notes] / WB; lower center in graphite: AERATION POND, TOXIC WATER TREATMENT FACILITY, PINE BLUFF, ARKANSAS 1989; by unknown hand, top right in graphite: EG.158.18

Wikidata ID

Q64147376

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