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Wooden posts in the ground casting shadows inside a painted diamond

White lines are painted on rocky soil in a diamond shape, with each corner touching the edge of one side of the image. Two dark lines cross within the center of the diamond, to form an “x” whose ends reach to each corner of the image. Several wooden stakes have been posted in the ground, two within the left side of the diamond, and two more in the extreme foreground. The posts slant upward and to the right and cast horizontal shadows that intersect the painted lines.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
P1982.97
People
Graham Howe, Australian (Sydney, Australia born 1950)
Title
Untitled
Other Titles
Series/Book Title: New California Views, 1979
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1978
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/285033

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
actual: 33 x 41 cm (13 x 16 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Graham Howe
  • inscription: inscribed in graphite on verso, lower center: Graham Howe 1978; stamped in black ink on verso, lower right: Graham Howe

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Seiden & de Cuevas, Inc., New York, New York, purchased from LA Ctr. for PSP Com., July 1977, 1977, gift, 1982. LA Ctr. for Photographic Studies Portfolio Com.; on Long Term Loan to the Fogg Art Museum from 1979 to 1982

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Purchase through the generosity of Melvin R. Seiden
Object Number
P1982.97
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 1100 60’s Experiment, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 10/04/2018 - 04/09/2019

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