Cloud, La Bajada, New Mexico

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Photography and Media

Artist

William Clift

Title

Cloud, La Bajada, New Mexico

Place

United States (Artist's nationality:)

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Made 1975

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Inscriptions

Signed recto, on window mat, lower right, below image, in graphite: “William Clift”; inscribed recto, on mount, upper center, above image, perpendicular to image, in graphite: "- Keep all sky (The dark part)"; inscribed recto, on mount, lower right, in graphite: "[arrow pointing left towards image] Do not crop any further / than this overmat"; inscribed recto, on mount, lower left, below image, in graphite: “Cloud, La Bajada, New Mexico, 1975 / Mat and Overmat 23 x 28 / or / 24 x 28 / Rising Museum White 4 Ply"; inscribed recto, lower center, below image, in graphite: "[line from inscription to image] Do Not crop bush"; signed recto, on mount, lower right, below image, in graphite: “William Clift”; inscribed recto, on mount, lower right, in graphite: “[rough sketch of photograph]”; inscribed verso, on mount, center, in black ink: “© William Clift 1975 / Reproduction Rights Remain with / William Clift or his Estate.”

Dimensions

Image: 34.3 × 49 cm (13 9/16 × 19 5/16 in.); Paper: 35.3 × 50 cm (13 15/16 × 19 11/16 in.); Mount: 59.3 × 70.4 cm (23 3/8 × 27 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Ann Lawrance Morse

Reference Number

2005.312

Copyright

© William Clift

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