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Pikes Peak and Colorado Springs
Object Details
- Exhibition Label
- Colorado native Laura Gilpin made photographs of Navaho and Pueblo Indians and many of the most spectacular sites in the Southwest, including archeological ruins. In her view of Colorado’s Pikes Peak, she pictured a landscape that increasingly faced modern-day intrusions: three airplanes in the sky, the town, and the newly built military airbase of Colorado Springs, below. Employing delicate platinum tones and a flat plane of focus, Gilpin created a dreamlike landscape.
- A Democracy of Images: Photographs from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2013
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro
- Data Source
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Date
- ca. 1926
- Object number
- 1997.98
- Artist
- Laura Gilpin, born Colorado Springs, CO 1891-died Santa Fe, NM 1979
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Photography-Photoprint
- Medium
- platinum print
- Dimensions
- sheet: 11 7/8 x 9 5/8 in. (30.2 x 24.5 cm.)
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- Department
- Graphic Arts
- Topic
- Architecture\vehicle\airplane
- Landscape\Colorado\Colorado Springs
- Landscape\mountain\Pikes Peak
- Record ID
- saam_1997.98
- Usage
- Not determined
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