ink on wood, 6-1/2 x 6-1/4 x 1/2 inches [16.5 x 15.8 x 1.2 cm]
Sea Stone & Other Pictures features a selection of painted woodblocks made by Robert Adams during the tumultuous spring of 2020, exhibited alongside the artist’s photographic views of the prairie. The simplified compositions draw on the stillness and grandeur that Adams remembers from his time spent on the Colorado prairie. A catalogue of these works, Robert Adams: The Plains, from Memory, will be published by Steidl this spring.
Robert AdamsThe Pawnee National Grassland, Colorado
ca. 1984
gelatin silver print, 11 x 14 inches (sheet) [27.9 x 35.6 cm]
Robert AdamsUntitled
2020
ink of wood, 16-3/4 x 16-1/4 x 3/4 inches [42.5 x 41.2 x 1.9 cm]
Robert AdamsWeld County, Colorado
1987
gelatin silver print, 14 x 11 inches (sheet) [35.6 x 27.9 cm]
Modest in size and often painted in springlike hues with block-printing ink, the wooden works are made from the scraps of an old brick and board bookcase, and cut with simple handsaws.
Robert AdamsUntitled
2020
ink on wood, 8-3/4 x 8-1/4 x 3/4 inches [22.2 x 20.9 x 1.9 cm]
Robert AdamsSouth of Burns, Oregon
1999
gelatin silver print, 14 x 11 inches (sheet) [35.6 x 27.9 cm]
Robert AdamsUntitled
2020
ink on wood, 13-5/8 x 6-3/4 x 3/4 inches [34.6 x 17.1 x 1.9 cm]
Robert AdamsNear Peyton, Colorado
1968
gelatin silver print, 10 x 8 inches (sheet) [25.4 x 20.3 cm]
Robert AdamsUntitled
2020
ink on wood, 17-1/4 x 11-1/4 x 3/4 inches [43.8 x 28.5 x 1.9 cm]