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20 Minutes before sunrise, 10/5/04
20 Minutes before sunrise, 10/5/04

20 Minutes before sunrise, 10/5/04

Series TitleTime Studies
Artist Mark Klett (American, born 1952)
Date2004
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 7 5/16 × 9 inches (18.57 × 22.86 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2010.18.17
SignedSigned and editioned on sheet verso, bottom, in pencil: "© 2004 Mark Klett 8/20"
InscribedTitled and dated on sheet recto, bottom, in silver pen: "20 Minutes before sunrise 10/5/04".
Markingsnone visible
Edition/State/Proofed. 8/20
On View
Not on view
Collections
DescriptionView of delicately illuminated sky, darker cloud on center right side of frame, very narrow trace of landscape visible along lower edge.Exhibition History

Heavens: Photographs of the Sky & Cosmos. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 15 - November 13, 2011, no cat.

Rotation 24. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 9 – November 12, 2017, no cat.

Gallery Label

This photograph is from Mark Klett’s series Time Studies. Each of the images from the series addresses a specific natural movement or change captured over a duration of time.

Provenance
Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2010;
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2010.
Copyright© Mark Klett
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