Laura Gilpin
Sunrise on the Desert

Sunrise on the Desert

© 1979 Amon Carter Museum of American Art

Sunrise on the Desert
Sunrise on the Desert
ArtistAmerican, 1891–1979
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Sunrise on the Desert
Date1921
PlaceTaos, New Mexico, United States
MediumPlatinum print
DimensionsImage: 7 1/2 × 9 3/16 in. (19.1 × 23.4 cm)
Sheet: 7 1/2 × 9 3/16 in. (19.1 × 23.4 cm)
Mount: 14 × 16 13/16 in. (35.6 × 42.7 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Leslie and Jack S. Blanton, Jr. in memory of Earl E. Dyess, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2002.2858
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenanceEx-collection Graham Nash; Sotheby's, New York.

Bought by Manfred Heiting from Sotheby's, New York, on 11/14/1986.
Exhibition History"Platinum Photographs; 1880s to 1920s", The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Lower Brown Corridor, May 24, 2004 - September 19, 2004.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Printed and typed on label affixed to verso of mount "LG / A PHOTOGRAPH BY / LAURA GILPIN / SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO / SUNRISE ON THE DESERT / 1924 / A platinum print"
in pencil, recto of mount, beneath lower right of image/sheet: "Laura Gilpin"

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