Railroad Crossing, Oklahoma
Artist
Antone Dolezal
(American, born 1982)
Date2009 (printed 2013)
Mediumpigment print
DimensionsImage: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
Support: 17 × 22 in. (43.2 × 55.9 cm)
Support: 17 × 22 in. (43.2 × 55.9 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of Dennis Cormier, 2018
Object number2018.5.1
DescriptionA dirt road runs down the center of the image with leafless trees and a swarm of birds above in the sky at the left. The right has a railroad stop sign.eMuseum Notes
The artist's series Ghost Town is a photographic essay about the Oklahoma panhandle, the epicenter of the disastrous Dust Bowl crisis of the 1920s. His images chart the beauty and desolation of the High Plains communities, which have experienced years of boom and bust. For now, the open landscape can't disguise the abandoned homes and fading towns in an area sometimes known as No Man's Land. Dolezal's lyrical photographs don't flinch from this reality but offer a lovely elegy for this distinctive region.
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