Deep South, Untitled (Scarred Tree)

1998

Sally Mann

Artist, American, born 1951

A tree trunk spanning the height of this horizontal photograph is scarred across its middle with a long, dark gash near its roots. The image is monochromatic like a black and white photograph but the white has a warm, almost golden ivory glow. The details of the trunk are crisp, in focus, while the wire fence, field, and trees in the background are blurry. The tree’s branches dip into the scene from the top edge of the photograph, and they are also out of focus. The top corners of the view are rounded, and filled in with black.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Alfred H. Moses and Fern M. Schad Fund

  • Dimensions

    framed: 111.76 × 137.16 × 5.08 cm (44 × 54 × 2 in.)
    image: 96.52 × 121.92 cm (38 × 48 in.)

  • Accession

    2016.112.1

  • Copyright

    Image (C) Sally Mann

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Sally Mann, Lexington, Virginia; (Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York); NGA purchase, 2016.

Associated Names

Bibliography

2005

  • Mann, Sally. Deep South. New York, 2005: 83.

Inscriptions

signed by artist, on paper affixed to mount verso, lower center in graphite: Sally Mann / © 1998 AP 3

Wikidata ID

Q64171345

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