The Cleveland Museum of Art

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Desert Form #1, New Mexico

Desert Form #1, New Mexico

1984
(American, b. 1944)
Image: 19.5 x 24.5 cm (7 11/16 x 9 5/8 in.); Matted: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.)
© 1984 William Clift
Location: not on view

Description

Clift has spent much of his creative life in New Mexico, frequently working in national parks, creating personal, reflective, and quiet images such as Desert Form #1, New Mexico, of lyrical grace and formal invention. Employing an 8-by-10-inch view camera, Clift takes advantage of its detail-rich negatives, yielding the ethereal light, rugged texture, and otherworldly quality of this ancient wilderness.
  • "1990 Photography Acquisitions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 78, no. 2 (1991): 46-59. Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 56-57 www.jstor.org
    Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. Reproduced: P. 125
  • Contemporary Landscape Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 26-August 14, 2011).
  • {{cite web|title=Desert Form #1, New Mexico|url=false|author=William Clift|year=1984|access-date=19 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1990.110