Home Site #2, Phillips Ranch, California

1984

Joe Deal

Associated Names
Joe Deal

Artist, American, 1947 - 2010

The image shows a black and white landscape with a grounded, eye-level point of view. Closest to us is a barren, dry expanse with small tufts of vegetation and thin, wiry plants emerging from the earth. Beyond this terrain are gently rolling hills making up the horizon line. The hills lack significant features except for occasional darker patches, suggesting clusters of trees or denser foliage. The scene is in grayscale, with a soft, uniform gray sky. The atmosphere is still, capturing the quiet, expansive nature of the landscape in a minimalist manner.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Dr. Richard and Mrs. Alice Thall

  • Dimensions

    image: 28.3 × 36 cm (11 1/8 × 14 3/16 in.)
    sheet: 35.3 × 43 cm (13 7/8 × 16 15/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2017.163.21


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Dr. Richard and Mrs. Alice Thall, Locust Valley, NY; gift to NGA (through Robert Mann Gallery, New York), 2017.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso, signed by artist, lower right in graphite: J. Deal; by artist, across bottom in graphite: Home Site #2. Phillips Ranch, California, 1984; possibly by artist, top right in graphite: 27677


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