Coolidge Dam, Gila County, AZ
Artist
Toshio Shibata
(Japanese, born 1949)
Date1997
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 39 1/2 × 31 3/4 inches (100.33 × 80.65 cm)
Sheet: 45 × 36 3/4 inches (114.3 × 93.35 cm)
Framed: 47 × 38 3/4 × 1 5/8 inches (119.38 × 98.43 × 4.13 cm)
Sheet: 45 × 36 3/4 inches (114.3 × 93.35 cm)
Framed: 47 × 38 3/4 × 1 5/8 inches (119.38 × 98.43 × 4.13 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2014.18.17
SignedSigned artist's label on back of frame backing board, lower right corner, black type with black ink: "Edition: / 5/10 / [signature] / © Toshio SHIBATA / #2193 / Coolidge Dam, Gila COunty, AZ 1997"
Inscribednone
Markingsnone
Edition/State/Proofed. 5/10
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionImage of gridded concrete structure with metal ladder along right edge.Gallery LabelToshio Shibata has long been interested in outdoor structures built to control nature. In this bird’s eye view of Coolidge Dam, Shibata renders the concrete slabs as an abstraction of angled surfaces. A staircase that might, at eye level, appear secure, seems far more tenuous in this image, as if made of tiny matchsticks.
Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2014;
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2014.
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2014.
Copyright© Toshio Shibata
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