East from Flagstaff Mountain, Boulder County, Colorado
- Photographer
- Robert Adams, American, born 1937
- Date
- 1975, printed 1991
- Material
- Gelatin silver print
- photographed in
- Colorado, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Photographs
- Collection
- Prints, Drawings, and Photographs
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- image: 8 3/4 × 10 7/8 in. (22.2 × 27.7 cm)
sheet: 11 in. × 13 15/16 in. (27.9 × 35.4 cm)
framed: 15 3/8 × 20 3/8 in. (39.1 × 51.8 cm) - Credit Line
- Museum Shop Fund
- Rights
- © Robert Adams, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco and Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
- Object Number
- 54:2006
NOTES
Looking out from a Colorado mountain, our view of an expansive landscape is framed by a line of dark evergreens. At first glance, the view is too bright and abstract to process, but then we notice the suburban sprawl extending far into the Eastern Plains. Through such photographs, Robert Adams reconciles the despoliation of the American West. Adam was a leading practitioner of the "New Topographics" movement of the 1970s which was concerned with the impact of unbridled commercial development.
Provenance
1991 - 2006
Robert Adams, Astoria, OR
- 2006
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY, on consignment from the artist [1]
2006 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased from Matthew Marks Gallery [2]
Notes:
[1] Per e-mail correspondence from Jeffrey Peabody at Matthew Marks Gallery, Oct. 17, 2006 [SLAM document files]
[2] Invoice dated September 6, 2006 [SLAM document files]. Minutes of the Collections Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, November 28, 2006.
Robert Adams, Astoria, OR
- 2006
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY, on consignment from the artist [1]
2006 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased from Matthew Marks Gallery [2]
Notes:
[1] Per e-mail correspondence from Jeffrey Peabody at Matthew Marks Gallery, Oct. 17, 2006 [SLAM document files]
[2] Invoice dated September 6, 2006 [SLAM document files]. Minutes of the Collections Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, November 28, 2006.
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