Rock of Ages #15, Active Section, E.L. Smith Quarry, Barre, Vermont

1992

Edward Burtynsky

Artist, Canadian, born 1955

We look down into a straight-sided quarry at mining equipment that appears minuscule in scale in this nearly square color photograph. The walls are streaked with pale and dark gray, and snow rests on narrow ledges between the quarried levels and on the ground. At first glance we might think we’re looking down the sides of skyscrapers onto a city block.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    chromogenic print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of the UBS Art Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 68 × 86.3 cm (26 3/4 × 34 in.)
    sheet: 76.1 × 101.1 cm (29 15/16 × 39 13/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2023.30.33

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Laurence Miller Gallery, New York); Paine Webber & Co., New York, 11 August 1992; UBS, New York, 2000; gift to NGA, 2023.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

signed by artist, bottom right below image in black ink: Ed Burtynsky PRINTED 1992; bottom left: "ROCK OF AGES. GRANITE QUARRY, ACTIVE SECTION, BARRE, VERMONT". 1992 2/10; on verso, by unknown hand, bottom right in graphite circled: 1

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