[Native American Baskets]

[Native American Baskets] by Adam Clark Vroman

Medium

Platinum print

Dimensions

5 3/4 x 4 3/8

Classification

Photographs

Department

Photographs

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005

Accession Number

2005.100.1334

Tags

Baskets

Art Historical Context

Adam Clark Vroman's *Native American Baskets* (ca. 1900) is a captivating platinum print that showcases the photographer's keen eye for ethnographic detail. Vroman, a pioneering documentarian of Native American life in the American Southwest, captured these intricately woven baskets during his expeditions in the late 19th and early 20 centuries. Measuring just 5 3/4 x 4 3/8 inches, this intimate photograph belongs to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Gilman Collection, acquired 2005. The platinum print medium, prized for its subtle tonal gradations and archival stability, exemplifies the Picto...

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