Santa Ana Wash, Norton Air Force Base, San Bernardino, California

1978

Robert Adams

Associated Names
Robert Adams

Artist, American, born 1937

The image shows a low horizon with a large sky above. In the sky, a small airplane is flying. The landscape in the foreground is filled with scrubs, bushes, and sparse trees. The vegetation and landscape are in a monochrome sepia tone.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Paul Sack

  • Dimensions

    image: 38.1 × 47.7 cm (15 × 18 3/4 in.)
    sheet: 40.4 × 50.5 cm (15 7/8 × 19 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2016.185.1

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(James Hyman Photography, London); Paul Sack, San Francisco, CA, November 2015; gift to NGA, 2016.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1980

  • Adams, Robert. From the Missouri West: Photographs by Robert Adams. New York, 1980: 46.

1989

  • Adams, Robert. To Make it Home: Photographs of the American West. Exh. cat. New York, 1989: 127.

Inscriptions

on verso, signed by artist, bottom right in graphite: Robert Adams 198~; by unknown hand, bottom center in graphite: 2/30; bottom center stamped in black ink: Copyright © [by unknown hand in graphite: 1980] by Robert Adams; by unknown hand, bottom center in graphite: RA.155.Y; bottom left in graphite: Santa Ana Wash, / Norton Air Force Base, California 1978

Wikidata ID

Q64159395

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