San Jacinto Mountains Sequence
1985, printed 1996
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View on museum website →Medium
chromogenic print
Dimensions
image: 21.7 × 27.5 cm (8 9/16 × 10 13/16 in.) sheet/mount: 27.62 × 35.24 cm (10 7/8 × 13 7/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Anonymous Gift
Accession Number
1998.91.20
Art Historical Context
Richard Misrach's *San Jacinto Mountains Sequence (1985, printed 1996) captures the rugged beauty of California's San Jacinto Mountains in a chromogenic print, a photographic process celebrated for its rich, vibrant hues and durability. This intimate-sized image—measuring 21.7 × 27.5 cm—invites viewers into a sequence that likely unfolds the layered drama of desert landscapes, a hallmark of Misrach's oeuvre. Acquired through an anonymous gift to the National Gallery of's Department of Photographs, it exemplifies mid-1980s fine art photography's shift toward large-format color work. Misrach, a...
About the Artist
Richard Misrach
Richard Misrach, born in 1949 in Los Angeles, California, emerged as one of the most influential American photographers of his generation through his pioneering use of large-format color photography to explore the fraught intersections of nature, culture, and human intervention. Raised in a middle-class family, he briefly studied mathematics before earning a B.A. in Psychology from the University ...