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Subsidence Craters and the Yucca Fault, Northern End of Yucca Flat, Nevada Test Site
Subsidence Craters and the Yucca Fault, Northern End of Yucca Flat, Nevada Test Site

Subsidence Craters and the Yucca Fault, Northern End of Yucca Flat, Nevada Test Site

Artist Emmet Gowin (American, born 1941)
Date1996
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 13 15/16 × 13 3/4 inches (35.4 × 34.93 cm)
Sheet: 19 15/16 × 15 7/8 inches (50.64 × 40.32 cm)
Framed: 23 × 21 inches (58.42 × 53.34 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.4014
SignedSigned on sheet verso, bottom, in pencil: "emmet gowin 1996"
InscribedOn sheet verso, bottom, in pencil: "SUBSIDENCE CRATERS AND THE YUCCA FAULT, NORTHERN END OF YUCCA FLAT, NEVADA TEST SITE, 1996".
MarkingsOn sheet verso, upper left, in pencil: "X 10 May 96.", "9 @5.6 +8"; On sheet verso, upper right, in pencil: "EG.349.2".
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DescriptionAerial image of subsidence craters scattered among the cracked landscape of Yucca Flat.Provenance
Purchased from Pace/MacGill Gallery by Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, 1998;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2005.
Copyright© Emmet Gowin
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