Label TextLargely self-taught as a darkroom photographer, William Clift has lived in Santa
Fe, New Mexico for over fifty years and is best known for capturing the
monumental landscapes of the American West. Working in the century-long
tradition of black and white American landscape photography, Clift depicts a
triangular desert outcropping under a dark and brooding sky that is a mirror
inversion of the world below. Clift’s image is highly symmetrical in spite of its
rendering of nature’s chaos.
DimensionsBoard: 14 x 17 in. (35.6 x 43.2 cm)
Sheet: 7 1/8 x 9 7/8 in. (18.1 x 25.1 cm)
Image: 6 3/4 x 9 1/2 in. (17.1 x 24.1 cm)
Sheet: 7 1/8 x 9 7/8 in. (18.1 x 25.1 cm)
Image: 6 3/4 x 9 1/2 in. (17.1 x 24.1 cm)
Accession Number 2025.35
Classificationsphotograph
SignedWilliam Clift (in board l,r, graphite)
Willam Clift (on mat l,r graphite)
InscriptionsFactory Butte, Utah 1975 (in board l,l, graphite)
