Point Marion, Pennsylvania
November 1993
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 23.5 × 29.3 cm (9 1/4 × 11 9/16 in.) sheet: 27.7 × 35.6 cm (10 7/8 × 14 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of the Artist
Accession Number
2020.158.45
Art Historical Context
"Point Marion, Pennsylvania" (November 1993) is a striking gelatin silver print by contemporary American photographer James Welling, now part of the National Gallery of Art's collection through the artist's generous gift. Capturing a specific moment in this small Pennsylvania borough along the Monongahela River, the work exemplifies Welling's interest in landscape and place during the early 1990s, a period when he explored photography's capacity to document everyday American scenes with formal precision. The medium—gelatin silver print—holds deep historical significance as the dominant black-...
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...