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

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Artist Edward Burtynsky (Canadian, born 1955)Canadian, born 1955

CultureCanadian

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Rock of Ages Quarry, Abandoned Section, Barre, Vermont

Date1992

PlaceBarre, Vermont, United States

PlaceUnited 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

Not on view

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Department

Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

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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