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accession number: 1987.181
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Santa Ana Wash, Norton Air Force Base, California, 1978. Robert Adams (American, b. 1937). Gelatin silver print; image: 22.7 x 28.7 cm (8 15/16 x 11 5/16 in.); paper: 27.7 x 35.4 cm (10 7/8 x 13 15/16 in.); matted: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Mann 1987.181 © 1980 Robert Adams
title: Santa Ana Wash, Norton Air Force Base, California
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creation date: 1978
creation date earliest: 1978
creation date latest: 1978
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creditline: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Mann
copyright: © 1980 Robert Adams
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culture: America, 20th century
technique: gelatin silver print
department: Photography
collection: PH - American 1951-Present
type: Photograph
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CREATORS
* Robert Adams (American, b. 1937) - artist
Robert Adams American, 1937- Robert Hickman Adams has been working as both a writer and a photographer since 1967. His portraits, landscapes, and seascapes are poetic documentations of a world that, in the artist's words, is "a troubling mixture" of ugliness, beauty, chaos, and alchemic order. The contemporary American West is Adams's favorite subject, one to which he has returned time and again. He tempers the heroic grandeur of his black-and-white vistas by including material evidence of human presence, revealing a relationship between man and land that is both troubled and hopeful. Born in Orange, New Jersey, Adams moved from the East Coast to Colorado as a teenager and farther west to California where he attended the University of Redlands, receiving his B.A. in English (1959), and a Ph.D., also in English, from ucla (1965). He has had one-person exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1979), the Philadelphia Museum of Art (1981, 1989), the Photo Gallery International, Tokyo (1991), the Centre d'Art Contemporain, Belgium (1992), and the Sprengel Museum Hannover, Germany (1994). His work was also included in New Topographics at the George Eastman House, Rochester (1975), and Photography Until Now at the Museum of Modern Art (1989). His publications include White Churches of the Plains: Examples from Colorado (1970), The New West: Landscapes along the Colorado Front Range (1974), Denver: A Photographic Survey of the Metropolitan Area (1977), From the Missouri West (1980), Beauty in Photography: Essays in Defense of Traditional Values (1981), Our Lives and Our Children: Pictures Taken Near the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant (1983), Perfect Times, Perfect Places (1988), Robert Adams: Photographs 1965-1985 (1988), To Make It Home: Photography of the American West (1989), Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews (1994), Listening to the River: Seasons in the American West (1994), and Cottonwoods (1995). Adams has received numerous honors and awards, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1973, 1978) and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1973, 1980), a Peer Award from the Friends of Photography (1982), an award from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (1994), and the Spectrum International Prize for Photography (1995). He lives in Longmont, Colorado. A.W.
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measurements: Image: 22.7 x 28.7 cm (8 15/16 x 11 5/16 in.); Paper: 27.7 x 35.4 cm (10 7/8 x 13 15/16 in.); Matted: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.)
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inscription: Written in pencil on verso: "Santa Ana Wash, Norton Air Force Base,/California, 1978 Robert Adams [signed] 1985"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: The Year in Review for 1987
opening date: 1988-02-24T05:00:00
The Year in Review for 1987. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 24-April 17, 1988).
title: Human Intervention: Contemporary Landscape Photography
opening date: 2001-05-26T00:00:00
Human Intervention: Contemporary Landscape Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 26-October 10, 2001).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'CMA, February 24 - April 17, 1988: "Year in Review 1987," CMA Bulletin, 75 (February 1988), p. 66, no. 31.', 'opening_date': '1988-02-24T00:00:00'}
* {'description': 'Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; May 26-October 10, 2001. Human Intervention: Contemporary Landscape Photography.', 'opening_date': '2001-05-26T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.
page number: Reproduced: P. 78
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