Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College
Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College
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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2.2002.18
People
Robert Adams, American (Orange, New Jersey born 1937)
Title
Survey Stake and Bulldozed Birch, Edge of Riverhead
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: Long Island Project
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1979
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/160023

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 14.8 x 19 cm (5 13/16 x 7 1/2 in.)
sheet: 27.6 x 35.3 cm (10 7/8 x 13 7/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: verso, b.r. corner, in graphite: Robert Adams
  • inscription: yes, verso of mount, bottom center, graphite [same hand as on mounts for other LIP photographers]: SURVEY STAKE AND BULLDOZED BIRCH
    EDGE OF RIVERHEAD
    ROBERT ADAMS
    C27
  • inscription: On mat board, removed: RA: 15 / SURVEY STAKE AND BULLDOZED BIRCH EDGE OF RIVERHEAD / ROBERT ADAMS / C27
  • label: On mat board, removed: William College Museum of Art / Temp. Loan / No. 80.5.25

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Gift of Apeiron Workshops
Copyright
© Robert Adams, courtesy of Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
Accession Year
2011
Object Number
2.2002.18
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • Makeda Best, ed., Devour the Land: War and American Landscape Photography since 1970, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2021), p. 69, cat. no. 13, ill.

Exhibition History

Verification Level

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