Pikes Peak and Colorado Springs

Laura Gilpin, Pikes Peak and Colorado Springs, ca. 1926, platinum print, sheet: 11 ⁷⁄₈ x 9 ⁵⁄₈ in. (30.2 x 24.5 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro, 1997.98

Artwork Details

Title: Pikes Peak and Colorado Springs
Artist: Laura Gilpin
Date: ca. 1926
Location: Not on view
Dimensions: sheet: 11 ⁷⁄₈ x 9 ⁵⁄₈ in. (30.2 x 24.5 cm.)
Credit Line: Gift of Charles Isaacs and Carol Nigro
Mediums Description: platinum print
Classifications: Photography
Photoprint
Subjects: Architecture — vehicle — airplane
Landscape — Colorado — Colorado Springs
Landscape — mountain — Pikes Peak
Object Number: 1997.98
Linked Open Data: https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/1997.98

Artwork Description

Colorado native Laura Gilpin made photographs of Navaho and Pueblo Indians and many of the most spectacular sites in the Southwest, including archeological ruins. In her view of Colorado’s Pikes Peak, she pictured a landscape that increasingly faced modern-day intrusions: three airplanes in the sky, the town, and the newly built military airbase of Colorado Springs, below. Employing delicate platinum tones and a flat plane of focus, Gilpin created a dreamlike landscape.

A Democracy of Images: Photographs from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2013