id: 168802 accession number: 2010.492 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2010.492 updated: 2023-03-22 03:04:44.577000 Nickel Tailings #35. Sudbury, Ontario, 1996. Edward Burtynsky (Canadian, b. 1955). Chromogenic process color print; framed: 89.5 x 119.9 x 3.2 cm (35 1/4 x 47 3/16 x 1 1/4 in.); mounted: 80.7 x 111.1 cm (31 3/4 x 43 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell in honor of Tom Hinson 2010.492 title: Nickel Tailings #35. Sudbury, Ontario title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1996 creation date earliest: 1996 creation date latest: 1996 current location: creditline: Gift of Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell in honor of Tom Hinson copyright: --- culture: Canada, 20th century technique: chromogenic process color print department: Photography collection: PH - Canadian type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Edward Burtynsky (Canadian, b. 1955) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 89.5 x 119.9 x 3.2 cm (35 1/4 x 47 3/16 x 1 1/4 in.); Mounted: 80.7 x 111.1 cm (31 3/4 x 43 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Artist; Laurence Miller Gallery, New York; Fred and Laura Bidwell, Peninsula, Ohio; Cleveland Museum of Art date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Nature transformed by industry, as it has been here, is the predominant theme of Burtynsky’s work. The vibrant rivers in these images seem to be lava flows but are actually nickel tailings, the waste products of metal extraction and mining activities. Simultaneously beautiful and horrifying, this industrial vista is a striking observation of the devastation humans can wreak on the landscape. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES