Clay/ Worked into a Stone/ Edges to Catch the Passing Light/ Government Island, Virginia
October 16, 2003
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View on museum website →Medium
silver dye bleach print
Dimensions
image: 42.55 × 127.64 cm (16 3/4 × 50 1/4 in.) sheet: 48.26 × 149.86 cm (19 × 59 in.) framed: 77.47 × 160.02 × 4.45 cm (30 1/2 × 63 × 1 3/4 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Patrons' Permanent Fund
Accession Number
2004.74.1.6
About the Artist
Andy Goldsworthy
Andy Goldsworthy OBE (born 25 July 1956, Cheshire) is a British sculptor, photographer, and environmentalist whose work has redefined the possibilities of land art through an intimate, labor-intensive collaboration with the natural world. Raised in Yorkshire, he worked on farms as a laborer from the age of thirteen — an experience that cultivated a close, physical attentiveness to soil, weather, a...