Edward Burtynsky
Rock of Ages Quarry, Abandoned Section, Barre, Vermont

Rock of Ages Quarry, Abandoned Section, Barre, Vermont

© Edward Burtynsky, courtesy Weinstein Hammons Gallery, Minneapolis / Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto

Rock of Ages Quarry, Abandoned Section, Barre, Vermont
Rock of Ages Quarry, Abandoned Section, Barre, Vermont
CultureCanadian
Titles
  • Rock of Ages Quarry, Abandoned Section, Barre, Vermont
Date1992
PlaceUnited States
PlaceBarre, Vermont, United States
MediumChromogenic print
DimensionsImage: 26 3/4 × 34 1/16 in. (67.9 × 86.5 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Prospero Foundation, courtesy of Jane and Raphael Bernstein
Object number92.346
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
DescriptionDeeply interested in the ways the natural environment has been transformed by human industry, Edward Burtynsky photographed granite quarries where the extraction of stone has left remarkably vast and geometrically precise voids in the land. Both the scale of the landscape and the mining operations carried out within it are disorienting and the result of a centuries-long process by which evolving technology and economic conditions allowed for the removal and transportation of massive amounts of stone. Now abandoned, human implements and structures are still present on the snow-capped terraces of the Rock of Ages quarry.
ProvenanceThe artist, Toronto; purchased by MFAH, 1992.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscription: Marked in black ink on sheet recto, lower left corner, below image: " "Rock of Ages Quarry, Abandoned Section, Barre, Vermont" 1992"
Signed in black ink on sheet recto, lower right corner, below image: "Ed Burtynsky 1/10"

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