2016.151: West Rock Tunnel

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2016.151

People

Robert Gober, American (Wallingford, CT born 1954)

Title

West Rock Tunnel

Classification

Photographs

Work Type

photograph

Date

1949-2001

Culture

American

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/356234

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Toned gelatin silver print on Luminos Charcoal R paper of digitally enhanced archival photograph, Archives of the Connecticut Department of Transportation, Record Group 89, Item 30, The West Rock Tunnel on the Wilbur Cross Parkway, New Haven, 1948-9, State Archives, Connecticut State Library, Hartford, Connecticut

Technique

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions

sheet: 61 × 50.8 cm (24 × 20 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Robert Gober; to, [Gary Schneider and John Erdman, New York], gift/sale; to Harvard Art Museums, 2016. Note: Printed in collaboration with the artist or the artist's estate and retained by Schneider/Erdman per agreement.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Schneider/Erdman Printer's Proof Collection, partial gift, and partial purchase through the Margaret Fisher Fund

Copyright

© Robert Gober

Accession Year

2016

Object Number

2016.151

Division

Modern and Contemporary Art

Contact

am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Jennifer Quick, ed., Analog Culture: Printer’s Proofs from the Schneider/Erdman Photography Lab, 1981–2001, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2018), pp. 168-170, fig. 28, ill. (color)

Subjects and Contexts

• Analog Culture

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