New Development on what was a Citrus Growing Estate, Highland, California

Artist Robert Adams (American, born 1937)

Date1983; printed 1998

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsImage: 8 15/16 × 11 1/4 inches (22.68 × 28.58 cm)
Sheet: 10 15/16 × 13 15/16 inches (27.76 × 35.38 cm)

Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation

Object number2015.67.3

SignedSigned on sheet verso, lower right, in pencil: "Robert Adams 1998"

InscribedOn sheet verso, lower left corner, in pencil: "New development on what was a / citrus growing estate, Highland."

MarkingsOn sheet verso, lower right, in pencil: "RA.1381.Y"

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DescriptionImage of a small cluster of tall trees at the edge of a steep drop off with rooftops visible behind.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Rotation 26. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, March 29, 2019- August 25, 2019, no cat.

Gallery Label

Working primarily in the American West, Robert Adams has spent decades exploring the ways in which this landscape has been both shaped and scarred by human activity. This photograph is part of a larger body of work titled Los Angeles Spring (1978–1983), a meditation on the greater Los Angeles basin. Adams is known for the unflinching clarity of his vision, and his characteristic tone of both celebration and criticism.

Provenance

With Matthew Marks Gallery, New York;
Unknown private collection, by October 6, 2015;
Purchased from the private collector's sale, Photographs 3772, Christie's, New York, October 6, 2015, lot 2015 by the Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2015;
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2015.

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