Richard Misrach
Boy Scouts and Fremont's Pyramid, Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation, Nevada

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© 1991 Richard Misrach, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York and Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles

Boy Scouts and Fremont's Pyramid, Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation, Nevada
Image Not Available for Boy Scouts and Fremont's Pyramid, Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation, Nevada
ArtistAmerican, born 1949
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Boy Scouts and Fremont's Pyramid, Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation, Nevada
  • from Canto XIV: The Visitors
Date1991, printed 1993
PlacePyramid Lake Indian Reservation, Nevada, United States
MediumChromogenic print
Dimensions20 × 24 inches (50.8 × 61 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the S. I. Morris Photography Endowment
Object number95.235
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenanceThe artist, Berkeley, California; purchased by MFAH, 1995.
Exhibition HistoryExhibited: "Crimes and Splendors, The Desert Cantos of Richard Misrach," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, June 2, 1996 - August 25, 1996; Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona, September 22 - December 1, 1996; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, April 24 - June 29, 1997, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii. December 3, 1997 - February 4, 1998; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California, October 3, 1998 - January 3, 1999. Organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
The photograph is signed and dated in black ink, under the image: "5/25 Boy Scouts and Fremont's Pyramid, Pyramid Lake Indian Reservation, Nevada copyright Richard Misrach 1991/1993".

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