Factory Siding, Holyoke, Massachusetts
1991
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 44.45 × 54.61 cm (17 1/2 × 21 1/2 in.) mat: 100.33 × 80.01 cm (39 1/2 × 31 1/2 in.) framed: 110.49 × 90.17 cm (43 1/2 × 35 1/2 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of the Artist and David Zwirner
Accession Number
2020.158.5
Art Historical Context
James Welling's *Factory Siding, Holyoke, Massachusetts*1991) captures the weathered textures of industrial architecture in Holyoke, a New England city once booming with textile and paper mills during the 19th and early 20th centuries. gelatin silver print, measuring 17½ × 21½ inches, invites viewers to contemplate the remnants of America's industrial past amid late-20th-century economic shifts, where factories like those in Holyoke symbolized both innovation and decline. Printed in the traditional gelatin silver process—a hallmark of fine art photography since the mid-19th century—Welling's ...
About the Artist
James Welling
James Welling, born in 1951 in Hartford, Connecticut, emerged as one of the most innovative voices in contemporary American photography through a multidisciplinary path that shaped his experimental ethos. He began his artistic training at Carnegie-Mellon University, studying drawing under Gandy Brodie, a second-generation Abstract Expressionist, before exploring modern dance at the University of P...