Weld County, Colorado
1984
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gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 38.1 × 47.3 cm (15 × 18 5/8 in.) sheet: 40.6 × 50.8 cm (16 × 20 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Robert and Kerstin Adams
Accession Number
2022.11.5
Art Historical Context
Robert Adams's *Weld County, Colorado* (4) captures the stark beauty of the American West during a time of rapid transformation. A master of black-and-white landscape photography, Adams documented the interplay between natural expanses and human intervention in his native Colorado. This gelatin silver print, measuring nearly 15 by 18 inches, likely portrays the open prairies of Weld County—known for its agricultural heartland—evoking both serenity and subtle encroachment of development. Adams's work emerged in the 1970s New Topographics movement, which favored objective, unromanticized views o...
About the Artist
Robert Adams · 1900–1900
Robert Adams, born Robert Hickman Adams on May 8, 1937, in Orange, New Jersey, grew up amid frequent relocations that shaped his deep affinity for the American landscape—from New Jersey to Madison, Wisconsin, and finally to Wheat Ridge, Colorado, in 1952.) Contracting polio at age 12, he recovered but retained a sensitivity to the environment that fueled his later work. After earning a B.A. in Eng...