Untitled
1993
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View on museum website →Medium
platinum print
Dimensions
image: 19.37 × 24.77 cm (7 5/8 × 9 3/4 in.) sheet: 24.13 × 29.21 cm (9 1/2 × 11 1/2 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Ray Mortenson
Accession Number
2025.14.2
Art Historical Context
Ray Mortenson's *Untitled* (1993) is a striking platinum print from the National Gallery of Art collection, gifted directly by the artist. Capturing an intimate scale—measuring just 19.4 × 24.8 cm (image) on a 24.1 × 29.2 cm sheet—this photograph exemplifies Mortenson's lifelong dedication to documenting America's vanishing architecture, particularly the weathered and farm structures of rural New England. The platinum print medium, a 19th-century process revived by modern photographers like Mortenson, lends the work its hallmark luminosity and tonal depth. Platinum and palladium salts produce...