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We look down into a straight-sided quarry at mining equipment that appears miniscule 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.

Edward Burtynsky

Rock of Ages #15, Active Section, E.L. Smith Quarry, Barre, Vermont, 1992

Not on View

Medium

chromogenic print

Dimensions

image: 68 × 86.3 cm (26 3/4 × 34 in.)

sheet: 76.1 × 101.1 cm (29 15/16 × 39 13/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of the UBS Art Collection

Accession Number

2023.30.33

Artists / Makers

Edward Burtynsky (artist) Canadian, born 1955

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Inscription

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

Provenance

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

Associated Names

UBS Art Collection