Newly burned area and grasses
October 17, 1999
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View on museum website →Medium
chromogenic print
Dimensions
image (visible): 72.39 × 72.39 cm (28 1/2 × 28 1/2 in.) framed: 102.55 × 100.65 × 3.81 cm (40 3/8 × 39 5/8 × 1 1/2 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Gift of the artist)
Accession Number
2015.19.5045
Art Historical Context
**Newly Burned Area and Grasses** by Evans captures the stark beauty of ecological renewal in the American prairie. Taken on October 17, 1999, this square chromogenic print (72.39 × 72.39 cm) showcases a freshly burned landscape dotted with resilient grasses, their vibrant greens and charcoaled earth rendered in rich, saturated colors typical of this photographic process. Evans, a Chicago-based artist renowned for her aerial views of the Midwest's Tallgrass Prairie Preserve in Kansas, transforms vast, often overlooked terrains into intimate studies of nature's cycles. Controlled burns like th...