Burning Tree with Ryder Sky, Chase County, Kansas, from the On Fire series
Larry Schwarm, American, born 1944
2001
Chromogenic color print on paper
2/15
Sheet: 29 × 29 in. (73.7 × 73.7 cm)
Frame: 39 3/4 × 39 in. (101 × 99.1 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Nancy and Thomas F. O’Neil III, Class of 1979
2014.66.34
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
21st century
Object Name
Photograph
Research Area
Photograph
Not on view
Label
A cottonwood tree smolders in the spring moonlight, slowly falling to embers and ash in an already-charred field in the rolling hills of east-central Kansas. While 19th-century Midwestern settlers considered the natural wildfires and controlled burns managed by Native American tribes to be dangerous and destructive, they formed an integral part of the ecosystem, reducing invasive species and inducing new growth that is more palatable to grazing animals.
From the 2022 exhibition This Land: American Engagement with the Natural World, curated by Jami C. Powell, Curator of Indigenous Art; Barbara J. MacAdam, former Jonathan L. Cohen Curator of American Art; Thomas H. Price, former Curatorial Assistant; Morgan E. Freeman, former DAMLI Native American Art Fellow; and Michael Hartman, Jonathan Little Cohen Associate Curator of American Art
Course History
ANTH 7.05, Animals and Humans, Laura Ogden, Winter 2022
GEOG 31.01, Postcolonial Geographies, Erin Collins, Winter 2022
ANTH 50.05, Environmental Archaeology, Madeleine McLeester, Winter 2022
ANTH 50.05, Environmental Archaeology, Madeleine McLeester, Winter 2022
ARTH 5.01, Introduction to Contemporary Art, Mary Coffey and Chad Elias, Winter 2022
ANTH 3.01, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Chelsey Kivland, Summer 2022
ANTH 3.01, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Chelsey Kivland, Summer 2022
SPAN 65.15, Wonderstruck: Archives and the Production of Knowledge in an Unequal World, Silvia Spitta and Barbara Goebel, Summer 2022
Exhibition History
This Land: American Engagement with the Natural World, Owen Robertson Cheatham Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 20- July 24, 2022.
Provenance
Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, California; sold to Nancy and Thomas O'Neil III, Baltimore, Maryland, 2004; given to present collection, 2014.
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