A color photograph of palm trees on fire in a desert.

Desert Fire #1 (Burning Palms)

Richard Misrach (b. 1949)

Date

1983, printed 1995
Object Type

Photographs
Medium

Dye coupler print
Dimensions

Image: 27 7/8 x 35 1/8 in.
Sheet: 30 x 39 7/8 in.
Edition

8/10
Inscriptions

Print Recto:
titled, numbered, signed, and dated, l.r. beneath image, in ink: DESERT FIRE #1 (BURNING PALM) 8/10 (CIBA FUji EDITiON) [copyright symbol] Richard Misrach 1983 \ 1995 F.
Credit Line

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

P1996.10
Copyright

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

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Location: Off view

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