Railyard Adjacent to the Beacon Landing, New York
Artist
Robert Glenn Ketchum
(American, born 1947)
Date1984 (printed 2010)
MediumSilver-dye bleach print
DimensionsImage: 28 15/16 × 36 9/16 in. (73.5 × 92.9 cm)
Support: 30 × 40 in. (76.2 × 101.6 cm)
Mat: 33 × 44 1/4 in. (83.8 × 112.4 cm)
Support: 30 × 40 in. (76.2 × 101.6 cm)
Mat: 33 × 44 1/4 in. (83.8 × 112.4 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of Robert Glenn Ketchum, 2011
Object number2011.28.2
DescriptionRailyard with a pole in the center foreground of the composition. Three train tracks, several scattered buildings, heavy equipment. Grasses along tracks, mountains in background, smattering of snow.eMuseum Notes
In 1982, the Lila Acheson Wallace Fund commissioned Ketchum – as well as the photographers William Clift and Stephen Shore – to photograph along New York’s famous Hudson River. Though the river and its surrounding landscape had inspired a group of nineteenth-century romantic paintings by American artists, by the middle of the twentieth century it was more industrial than rural. Ketchum admired the landscape photographs of Ansel Adams and Eliot Porter, but in photographing along the Hudson, he felt it was important to show not only its natural beauty but also the additions to the landscape by human beings.
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Terms
- environmental impact
- industry
- landscapes (environments)
- Nature
- railroads
- telephones
- environmental policy
- environmental protection
- railroad yards
