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Mount Saint Helens Area, Washington
Mount Saint Helens Area, Washington

Mount Saint Helens Area, Washington

Artist Emmet Gowin (American, born 1941)
Date1980
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 9 9/16 × 9 13/16 inches (24.29 × 24.92 cm)
Sheet: 14 × 10 15/16 inches (35.56 × 27.78 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.1406
SignedSignature on sheet verso, bottom edge, in pencil: "emmet gowin"
InscribedOn sheet verso, bottom edge, in pencil: "MOUNT SAINT HELENS AREA, WASHINGTON 1980"
MarkingsOn sheet verso, upper right corner, in pencil: "2 [circled] 2008 - A [circled]"; On sheet verso, lower right corner, in pencil: "c/eG-9"
On View
Not on view
Collections
DescriptionImage of area around Mt. St. Helen's.Exhibition History

New Acquisitions to the Hallmark Photographic Collection, 1980-1983. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, April 1 –  May 1, 1983.

Photographic Abstraction.  Utah State University, Logan, UT, Sierra Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV, Fine Art Center/Cheekwood, Nashville, TN, Montgomery Museum of Art, Montgomery, AL, January – September 1987, no cat.

New Frontiers: American Photography Since 1960. Light Factory, Charlotte, NC, November 5 - December 17, 1993, no cat.

The Photographs of Emmet Gowin. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 1 – November 8, 2015, no cat.

Copyright© Emmet Gowin
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