A Créche Located in a Remote Graveyard on the Side of Spanish Peaks

Robert Adams (b. 1937)

Date

1972
Object Type

Photographs
Medium

Gelatin silver print
Dimensions

Image: 7 3/8 x 7 5/16 in.
Mount: 15 1/2 x 14 in.
Inscriptions

Mount Verso:
c. stamped in ink: PLEASE NOTE: DO NOT CROP FOR REPRODUCTION
c. stamped in ink: ROBERT ADAMS / 827 SUMNER STREET / LONGMONT COLO. 80501
c.l. to c.r. in ink: A crèche, located in a remote graveyard on the side of the / Spanish Peaks. Figures are plaster, decorations are dried / brown, and the glass is dirty. Sunlight transforms it, / however, revealing again the pioneers' joy in family life, / and their belief that the best in it is a metaphor.
l.l. in graphite: Above Gulnare.
l.r. in graphite: Robert Adams 1972
Credit Line

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, Purchase through exchange
Accession Number

P1999.3.1
Copyright

© Robert Adams, courtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

Location: Off view

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