Salt River Canyon, Arizona
Michael A. Smith, American, 1942 - 2018
1978
Gelatin silver print
Image: 7 1/2 × 19 9/16 in. (19 × 49.7 cm)
Overall: 13 × 25 in. (33 × 63.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Harley and Stephen C. Osman, Class of 1956, Tuck 1957
PH.2004.77.47
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Photograph
Research Area
Photograph
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in graphite, lower right, below image: Michael A. Smith; dated, in graphite, lower left, below image: 1978; inscribed, in graphite, on reverse, center: 82-7805-05 # 22 / SALT RIVER CANYON / ARIZONA 1978
Label
Originating amid the volcanic rock of the White Mountains, the Salt River cuts through the towering rock formations of central Arizona, flowing some 200 miles southwest to Phoenix. Water and erosion have worn away the faces of the higher plateaus, revealing the stratified layers of a geologic history. Michael A. Smith’s photograph of this soaring escarpment captures an ongoing lithic drama, millions of years in the making, instilling in us as viewers a sense of almost sublime insignificance.
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
Harley and Stephen C. Osman, Stamford, Connecticut; given to present collection, 2004.
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