Emmet Gowin
Agricultural Pivots on the Snake River Plain near the Confluence of the Snake and Columbia Rivers, Washington

Agricultural Pivots on the Snake River Plain near the Confluence of the Snake and Columbia Rivers, Washington

© 1991 Emmet Gowin, courtesy Pace Gallery

Agricultural Pivots on the Snake River Plain near the Confluence of the Snake and Columbia Rivers, Washington
Agricultural Pivots on the Snake River Plain near the Confluence of the Snake and Columbia Rivers, Washington
ArtistAmerican, born 1941
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Agricultural Pivots on the Snake River Plain near the Confluence of the Snake and Columbia Rivers, Washington
Date1991
PlaceWashington, United States
MediumGelatin silver print with toning
DimensionsImage: 9 3/8 × 9 7/16 in. (23.8 × 24 cm)
Sheet: 10 7/8 × 13 7/8 in. (27.7 × 35.3 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by W. Burt Nelson in honor of Marjorie Nelson Riettini, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2002.1195
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
DescriptionAlthough Emmet Gowin is best known for making intimate portraits of his wife and family, he has also explored aerial landscape photography since the 1980s. The artist expresses concerns over human impacts on the environment via pivot irrigation, natural resource mining, and weapons testing, and this ideological focus of the series strikes a balance with the abstraction of the imagery. Taken from a perspective unusual to landscape photography, the photographs lose any sense of scale to the patterns and formations, relishing in the ambiguity of visual beauty and destruction.
Provenance[Manfred Heiting, Malibu, California]; purchased by MFAH, 2002.
Exhibition History“The Will to Architecture,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, April 1–July 6, 2014.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Marked in pencil verso bottom:
"AGRICULTURAL RIVETS IN THE SNAKE RIVER PLAIN NEAR THE CONFLUENCE OF THE SNAKE / And COLUMBIA RIVERS, WASHINTON 1991

Marked in pencil verso right edge:
"Forte H Apo (?) 10 @ 5.6 (?)"

Marked in pencil verso top right corner:
"Eg.232"
Marked in pencil verso bottom:
"Emmet Gowin"

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