Untitled (Predators; Indian Springs, NV)

Trevor Paglen, Untitled (Predators; Indian Springs, NV), 2010, chromogenic print, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Nion McEvoy, 2012.9.1, © 2010, Trevor Paglen
Trevor Paglen, Untitled (Predators; Indian Springs, NV), 2010, chromogenic print, 60 x 48 in. (152.4 x 121.9 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Nion McEvoy, 2012.9.1, © 2010, Trevor Paglen

Artwork Details

Title
Untitled (Predators; Indian Springs, NV)
Artist
Date
2010
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
60 x 48 in. (152.4 x 121.9 cm)
Copyright
© 2010, Trevor Paglen
Credit Line
Gift of Nion McEvoy
Mediums Description
chromogenic print
Classifications
Subjects
  • Travel — air — airplane
  • Landscape — weather — cloud
  • Landscape — sky
Object Number
2012.9.1
Linked Open Data
https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/2012.9.1

Artwork Description

Trevor Paglen’s work presents ideas that deal with secrecy and the workings of the military and intelligence world. Though the work is officially untitled, Paglen’s descriptive phase, Predators; Indian Springs, NV, refers to the presence of distant Predator drones in the sky above Nevada, in effect asking the viewer to perceive intellectually what is easily visible from the ground.


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Cynthia A. Osborne, Megalith Envy, from the portfolio Drawn to Stone, lithograph, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of The University of Tennessee, Knoxville Print Workshop, 1998.156.19, © 1998, Cynthia A. Osborne
Megalith Envy, from the portfolio Drawn to Stone
Artist
lithograph
Not on view
Cynthia A. Osborne, False Starts, from the portfolio Point of Departure, 1983-1984, color lithograph, screenprint and pencil on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Jane E. Goldman and Catherine Kernan, 1987.66.17
False Starts, from the portfolio Point of Departure
Artist
Date1983-1984
color lithograph, screenprint and pencil on paper
Not on view

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