Kansas, the geographic center of the lower forty-eight states, was admitted to the Union on this day in 1861.
Photographer Larry Schwarm, who captured today's image, Grass Fire near Cassoday, Kansas, is a native and resident of that great state.
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Kansas, the geographic center of the lower forty-eight states, was admitted to the Union on this day in 1861.
Photographer Larry Schwarm, who captured today's image, Grass Fire near Cassoday, Kansas, is a native and resident of that great state.
Schwarm searches for rare situations of utmost simplicity in nature—where, for example, the horizon line separates land and sky, and few or no details can be discerned in either realm.
View more contemporary American landscape photography in our online exhibition Between Home and Heaven.
Source: Merry A. Foresta, Stephen Jay Gould, and Karal Ann Marling. Between Home and Heaven: Contemporary American Landscape Photography (Washington, D.C. and Albuquerque, New Mexico: The National Museum of American Art in association with the University of New Mexico Press, 1992).
Pictured: Larry W. Schwarm, born 1944, Grass Fire near Cassoday, Kansas, 1990, ektacolor print on paper, 13 1/4 x 13 1/4 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist.