2.2002.269: All the Warheads in the U.S. Nuclear Arsenal
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 2.2002.269
- People
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Robert Del Tredici, American (Cloverdale, California born 1938)
- Title
- All the Warheads in the U.S. Nuclear Arsenal
- Classification
- Photographs
- Work Type
- photograph
- Date
- 1985
- Places
- Creation Place: North America, United States, Massachusetts, Boston
- Culture
- American
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/148806
Physical Descriptions
- Technique
- Gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
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image: 18.2 x 27.4 cm (7 3/16 x 10 13/16 in.)
sheet: 27.7 x 35.3 cm (10 7/8 x 13 7/8 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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inscription: From verso, as transcribed on current mat: [crossed out: R.W.Frederic] Robert Deltredici
All the warheads in the U.S. nuclear arsenal
[crossed out: P1997.7] - label: Printed label for image taped inside mat, removed: All the Warheads in the U.S. Nuclear Arsenal. This field of ceramic nose-cones represents, in miniature, all the warheads in the U.S. nuclear arsenal at the end of the Cold War: about 25,000. Some of these warheads are now being dismantled, but the long-term disposition of the plutonium inside these bombs has not yet been determined. "Amber Waves of Grain" installation by Denver sculptress Barbara Donachy, Boston Science Museum, Boston, Massachusetts. 13 February 1985
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inscription: From verso, as transcribed on current mat: [crossed out: R.W.Frederic] Robert Deltredici
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Beinecke Fund
- Copyright
- Photograph copyright by Robert Del Tredici
- Accession Year
- 2011
- Object Number
- 2.2002.269
- Division
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- Contact
- am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Exhibition History
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