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The Great Sand Dunes

Artist Michel Szulc Krzyzanowski (Dutch, born 1949)
Date1979
MediumGelatin silver prints
DimensionsImage (each): 4 15/16 × 3 5/16 inches (12.54 × 8.41 cm)
Sheet (each): 5 1/4 × 3 5/8 inches (13.34 × 9.21 cm)
Sheet (all 7): 5 1/4 × 26 inches (13.34 × 66.04 cm)
Mount: 19 11/16 × 27 3/4 inches (50.01 × 70.49 cm)
Credit LineGift of Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Object number2005.27.4147.A-G
SignedSigned on mount recto, lower right, in pencil: "M. Szulc Kryzanowski"
InscribedOn mount recto, bottom, in pencil: "The Great Sand Dunes 13 November 1979 10/25"
MarkingsOn mount verso, bottom, in pencil: "144-1-85"; On mount verso, lower right corner, in pencil: "1198".
Edition/State/Proofed. 10/25
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DescriptionSeries of photographs mounted horizontally on to a single mount. Each image is of an elongated figurative shadow where the hand moves from extending above the figure's head to below. The shadow appears on a series of sand dunes with a small stretch of sky along the top of each image.
Copyright© Michel Szulc Krzyzanowski
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The Great Sand Dunes (Hands)
Michel Szulc Krzyzanowski
1979
2005.27.4149.A-D
The Great Sand Dunes (Ball)
Michel Szulc Krzyzanowski
November 13, 1979
2005.27.4148.A-G
recto overall
Michel Szulc Krzyzanowski
December 20, 1981
2020.5.10
Untitled, Dunes and Mountains, White Sands
Brett Weston
1945; printed later
2008.6.5
Sand Dunes, Carson Desert, Nevada
Timothy H. O'Sullivan
1867
2005.27.191
Dunes, Oceano
Edward Weston
1936
2005.27.406
Dunes, Oceano
Edward Weston
1936; printed ca. 1975
2005.27.2478
Dunes, Oceano
Edward Weston
1936
F57-76/24
The Great Sand Dunes, Colorado
Richard E. Loftis
1978
F91-72/49
Sand Dune #1, Palm Desert, California
William Garnett
1975
2005.27.2677
Sand Dunes, Sunrise, Death Valley National Park
Ansel Adams
1948; printed 1980
2007.39.1