Abandoned Home, Oklahoma
Artist
Antone Dolezal
(American, born 1982)
Date2010 (printed 2015)
Mediumpigment print
DimensionsImage: 15 × 18 in. (38.1 × 45.7 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 number2018.5.2
DescriptionWhite house at center of the composition, barely visible behind large bushes and flanked on both sides by deciduous trees. Out building at left behind trees and yellow grasses in foreground.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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