Edward Burtynsky
Abandoned Marble Quarry #1, Near Rutland, Vermont

Abandoned Marble Quarry #1, Near Rutland, Vermont

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

Abandoned Marble Quarry #1, Near Rutland, Vermont
Abandoned Marble Quarry #1, Near Rutland, Vermont
CultureCanadian
Titles
  • Abandoned Marble Quarry #1, Near Rutland, Vermont
Date1991
PlaceRutland, Vermont, United States
MediumChromogenic print
DimensionsImage: 26 13/16 × 33 15/16 in. (68.1 × 86.2 cm)
Frame: 37 3/8 x 44 3/8 x 1 1/2 in. (94.9 x 112.7 x 3.8 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Prospero Foundation, courtesy of Jane and Raphael Bernstein
Object number92.347
Non exposé

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Description


The sweeping vista Edward Burtynsky captures in this picture depicts the regrowth of vegetation and reclamation by nature of an abandoned marble quarry where two centuries of human activity laid bare millennia of geologic devel­opment. Depicting the dark water as it flows through the triangular outcropping in the rockface and settles into the quarry’s basin, Burtynsky invites consideration of how the ebb and flow of economic conditions, the development of technology and transportation, and access to labor have affected the changing demand for industrial stone extraction and the results it leaves on the landscape.



ProvenanceThe artist, Toronto; purchased by MFAH, 1992.
Exhibition History"Manufactured Landscapes: The Photographs of Edward Burtynsky," Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, January 24–April 20, 2003; Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, October 7, 2004–January 9, 2005; Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, March 20–May 11, 2005; Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for the Visual Arts at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, June 29–September 18, 2005; Brooklyn Museum, September 23–December 11, 2005.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscription: Marked in black ink on sheet recto, lower left corner, below image: " "Abandoned Marble Quarry, Rutland, Vermont" 1991 3/10"
Signed in black ink on sheet recto, lower right corner below image: "Ed Burtynsky"

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