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Highway 285, New Mexico

Artist Lawrence McFarland (American, 1942 - 2023)
Date1983
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall: 10 1/2 x 17 inches (26.67 x 43.18 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.1820
InscribedSignature Signed in artist's hand Front of Print
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Exhibition History

Thinking Photography: Five Decades at the Kansas City Art Institute.  The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO,  July 24, 2010 –  January 2, 2011, no cat.

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Lawrence McFarland has created an influential body of work that is subtle, whimsical, graceful and sublime. His quiet, poetic images explore the experience of specific places. In addition to the physical things he records, McFarland is consistently interested in the qualities of space, light and atmosphere. Typically, he works with a hand-held, medium-format camera. This gives him the ability to work quickly and intuitively and to produce prints with fine detail and subtle tonalities.

Born in Wichita, Kansas, McFarland went on to receive an M.F.A. from the University of Nebraska in 1976 after graduating from the Kansas City Art Institute. After serving as an assistant professor and visiting artist at the Kansas City Art Institute in the fall of 1984, McFarland began teaching at the University of Texas-Austin, where he now holds an endowed position. Early in 2010, he was honored with a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship.
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Painted Desert Overlook, Navajo Reservation, AZ
Lawrence McFarland
1982
2005.27.1821
I-76 Near Sterling, Colorado
Lawrence McFarland
1977
2005.27.1817
Wukoki Ruin, Wupatki National Monument, AZ
Lawrence McFarland
1982
2005.27.1819
First Morning, Apeiron, NY
Lawrence McFarland
1977
2005.27.1818
Untitled (train cars in snow)
Lawrence McFarland
n.d.
2007.33.17
untitled [field with tattered flags]
Lawrence McFarland
1977
2007.33.21
untitled [snow scene]
Lawrence McFarland
1977
2007.33.22
José Garcia and Donald Miller in Mitla, Oazaca, Mexico
D. H. Lawrence
December 11, 1924
2017.61.19.1,2
recto image overall
David Plowden
1971; printed 1993
2015.18.154
sheet recto overall
David Taylor
2007
2016.5
Tree with birds, Guanajuato Highway, Mexico
Graciela Iturbide
1990
2017.68.84