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
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creation date:			1996
creation date earliest:		1996
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creditline:			Gift of Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell in honor of Tom Hinson
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culture:	Canada, 20th century
technique:	chromogenic process color print
department:	Photography
collection:	PH - Canadian
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* Edward Burtynsky (Canadian, b. 1955)  - artist

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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.)
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PROVENANCE

	Artist; Laurence Miller Gallery, New York; Fred and Laura Bidwell, Peninsula, Ohio; Cleveland Museum  of Art
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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.
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