Untitled, from the series Meadow, Carlisle, Massachusetts

Barbara Bosworth, Untitled, from the series Meadow, Carlisle, Massachusetts, 2004, chromogenic print, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Haluk and Elisa Soykan, 2008.2.28, © 2004, Barbara Bosworth
Barbara Bosworth, Untitled, from the series Meadow, Carlisle, Massachusetts, 2004, chromogenic print, sheet and image: 3240 in. (81.3101.6 cm), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Haluk and Elisa Soykan, 2008.2.28, © 2004, Barbara Bosworth

Artwork Details

Title
Untitled, from the series Meadow, Carlisle, Massachusetts
Date
2004
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
sheet and image: 3240 in. (81.3101.6 cm)
Copyright
© 2004, Barbara Bosworth
Credit Line
Gift of Haluk and Elisa Soykan
Mediums Description
chromogenic print
Classifications
Subjects
  • Landscape — tree — apple tree
  • Landscape — Massachusetts — Carlisle
Object Number
2008.2.28

Artwork Description

Bosworth does not always photograph the landscapes we have been led to expect; instead we see charred timber; a highway underpass alight with birds; a hiker's lookout surveying an interchange. These are not images of a remote wilderness secluded from contact, yet we are still surrounded by the pleasures of the natural world: a cold river skimmed by the palm of the hand or the pulsing rush of a waterfall. Her photographs are peopled with tourists, friends, family, and sometimes the artist herself: "As a photographer I am interested not just in the terrain but in the ways we interact with our environment. I began to make panoramic photographs as a way to impart a greater sense of the land, to convey the experience of being surrounded by the landscape."

The large-scale color prints from the series Meadow were all made within a space of several acres just outside suburban Boston. Photographed along the intersection of manicured fields and rough brush and bramble, the meadow is home to blackberries and wild roses, nesting birds, fireflies, coyotes, and an occasional black bear. We watch as the sunlight angles and shifts through each season, and the dense growth of the meadow opens and closes around this compact and intimate world.

Earth and Sky: Photographs by Barbara Bosworth exhibition label

Works by this artist (744 items)

William Zorach, Seated Girl (with hands under legs), 1930, cast and patinated plaster, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Tessim Zorach and Dahlov Ipcar, 1971.449.8
Seated Girl (with hands under legs)
Date1930
cast and patinated plaster
On view
William Zorach, Mother and Child (study), ca. 1926, plaster, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Tessim Zorach and Dahlov Ipcar, 1968.154.153
Mother and Child (study)
Dateca. 1926
plaster
On view
William Zorach, Study for Head of Moses, ca. 1950, unfired ceramic, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Tessim Zorach and Dahlov Ipcar, 1968.154.161
Study for Head of Moses
Dateca. 1950
unfired ceramic
On view
William Zorach, Kneeling Boy with Bird and Dog, ca. 1935, cast plaster, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Tessim Zorach and Dahlov Ipcar, 1968.154.137
Kneeling Boy with Bird and Dog
Dateca. 1935
cast plaster
On view

More Artworks from the Collection

Marguerite Zorach, (Figure Seated, Figure Leaning Over), n.d., pencil on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Tessim Zorach, 1970.65.92
(Figure Seated, Figure Leaning Over)
Daten.d.
pencil on paper
Not on view
Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, Paros, n.d., pencil on paper, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Martha F. Butler, 1991.56.286
Paros
Daten.d.
pencil on paper
Not on view