Landscape and Nature, Comparative and Historical

John Collier
View from the Dix Road Bridge, Detroit, Michigan, from "Detroit Focus 2000"
black and white photograph on paper
11 in. x 14 in. ( 27.9 cm x 35.5 cm )
Gift of Detroit Focus 2000, and partial purchase with funds from the Jean Paul Slusser Memorial Fund
Laton Alton Huffman
A Killing of Elk
colotype print on paper
6 15/16 in. x 8 15/16 in. ( 17.6 cm x 22.7 cm )
Gift of Dr. & Mrs. Michael Fauman
Michael Kenna
Filey Early Warning Station
sepia and selenium-toned gelatin silver print on paper
20 in. x 16 in. ( 50.8 cm x 40.7 cm )
Museum Purchase
A photograph of a large farm machine in a field of corn. A man in a hat operates the machine.
Arthur Rothstein
Farm Machine
gelatin silver print on paper
12 5/8 in x 15 3/8 in x 3/4 in (32.07 cm x 39.05 cm x 1.91 cm);12 5/8 in x 15 3/8 in x 3/4 in (32.07 cm x 39.05 cm x 1.91 cm)
Gift of Gilbert M. Frimet
This is a black and white photograph depicting a rocky hillside in a barren landscape. There are craggy peaks in the background and some scrub type vegetation. The viewpoint is from above looking down.
Joe Deal
Indio, California, from "The Fault Zone"
gold-toned gelatin silver print on paper
13 13/16 in. x 13 3/4 in. ( 35.1 cm x 35 cm )
Gift of The Morris and Beverly Baker Foundation, in memory of Morris D. Baker, a graduate of The University of Michigan School of Architecture, 1952
This is a black and white photograph depicting a rocky landscape scene. There are sharp cliff walls, striated with grooves, and two dirt roads with tire tracks. In the center portion, there is a grouping of seventeen piles of dirt, all of a similar size, and scrub like vegetation. The viewpoint is from above looking down.
Joe Deal
San Bernardino, California (I), from "The Fault Zone"
gold-toned gelatin silver print on paper
13 13/16 in. x 13 3/4 in. ( 35.1 cm x 35 cm )
Gift of The Morris and Beverly Baker Foundation, in memory of Morris D. Baker, a graduate of The University of Michigan School of Architecture, 1952
This is a black and white photograph depicting two sides of a rural road running through the upper portion of the work. In the foreground, where the viewer stands, is a grassy hillside that slopes downward toward the road. There are some small skinny trees, large boulders and rocks. In the background there are low lying buildings, telephone poles and rows of cultivated trees.
Joe Deal
Fontana, California, from "The Fault Zone"
gold-toned gelatin silver print on paper
13 13/16 in. x 13 3/4 in. ( 35.1 cm x 35 cm )
Gift of The Morris and Beverly Baker Foundation, in memory of Morris D. Baker, a graduate of The University of Michigan School of Architecture, 1952
This is a black and white photograph depicting an outdoor scene with dense vegetation. Leafy plants cover the ground in the front and taller bushes and trees are in the background. The viewpoint is from above looking down.
Joe Deal
Newport Beach, California, from "The Fault Zone"
gold-toned gelatin silver print on paper
13 13/16 in. x 13 3/4 in. ( 35.1 cm x 35 cm )
Gift of The Morris and Beverly Baker Foundation, in memory of Morris D. Baker, a graduate of The University of Michigan School of Architecture, 1952
This is a black and white photograph of an outdoor scene showing a rocky mountainside with block retaining walls and scrub like vegetation. In front of this slope are three multilevel dirt roads with tire tracks. In the foreground is a long cement slab, like a roadway curb.
Joe Deal
Brea, California, from "The Fault Zone"
gold-toned gelatin silver print on paper
13 13/16 in. x 13 3/4 in. ( 35.1 cm x 35 cm )
Gift of The Morris and Beverly Baker Foundation, in memory of Morris D. Baker, a graduate of The University of Michigan School of Architecture, 1952
This is a black and white photograph of a residential street seen from above, as if the viewer is standing on a nearby hillside. In the forefront are tall bushes through which are seen the flat roofs of the closely spaced houses below. On the other side of the street, the houses are wedged between the road and another steep hillside.
Joe Deal
Baldwin Hills, California, from "The Fault Zone"
gold-toned gelatin silver print on paper
13 13/16 in. x 13 3/4 in. ( 35.1 cm x 35 cm )
Gift of The Morris and Beverly Baker Foundation, in memory of Morris D. Baker, a graduate of The University of Michigan School of Architecture, 1952
This is a black and white photograph of the face of a rock wall with a long striation running through it. In the foreground there is stringy vegetation and on the right edge there is a cropped view of a wooden balcony suspended in space.
Joe Deal
Glendale, California, from "The Fault Zone"
gold-toned gelatin silver print on paper
13 13/16 in. x 13 3/4 in. ( 35.1 cm x 35 cm )
Gift of The Morris and Beverly Baker Foundation, in memory of Morris D. Baker, a graduate of The University of Michigan School of Architecture, 1952
This is a black and white photograph of an outdoor scene of a rocky hilltop. In the foreground are large boulders with vegetation growing among them. The hillside slopes down toward a distant valley iwith cultivated fields and straight roads. On the horizon is another set of rocky hillsides.
Joe Deal
Hemet, California, from "The Fault Zone"
gold-toned gelatin silver print on paper
13 13/16 in. x 13 3/4 in. ( 35.1 cm x 35 cm )
Gift of The Morris and Beverly Baker Foundation, in memory of Morris D. Baker, a graduate of The University of Michigan School of Architecture, 1952

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376 Collection Object Sources

Farm Machine (2008/2.348)
Ice House (2012/2.2)
Untitled (1990/1.251)
Untitled (1990/1.253)
Untitled (1990/1.239)
Valley No. 2 (1960/2.72)
Foothills (1948/1.362)
Hills (1948/1.363)
White Landscape (1958/2.59)
Landscape (1960/2.65)
Landscape (2000/2.193)
White Territory (1974/2.21)
Landscape (1968/1.81)
The Adirondacks (1979/2.136)
Innsbruck (1995/1.76)
Twilight (1955/1.87)
Landscape (2007/2.101)
Landscape (1963/2.41)
Landscape (1984/2.38)
Landes (1973/1.752)
(Landscape) (1940.134)
Jamaica Bay (1985/1.98)
Oban, from "Ecosse" (1984/1.294.10)
Ink Landscape (1980/2.202)
Landscape (1980/2.161)
The Road to Shu (1970/2.152)
Landscape (1967/2.3)
Landscape (1984/2.39)
Le Cannet (1963/2.19)
Ercolano (1980/1.175)
La Saint Mare (1973/1.790)
Landscape (1971/2.2)
Ixtaccíhuatl (1958/1.106)
Fog - Yosemite CA (1980/2.181)
Mountain Studio (1987/1.196.4)
Summer (1961/2.2)
On a Spring Day (2010/2.29)
View at Hebron (1988/1.94.1-2)
The Glebe Farm (1953/1.73)
Home in the Hills (1983/2.241)
Landscape (1954/1.80)
Huron River (1981/2.124)
Landscape (1964/1.136)
A Landscape (1979/1.149)
Niagara Falls (1993/2.30)
Somerset, England (1988/1.159)
Cradling Wheat (1980/2.170)
February (1981/2.182)
Head of Eskdale (1987/1.325)
Winter (1961/2.3)
(Landscape) (1940.226)
Landscape (1970/2.90)
Highlands (1959/1.143)
Landscape (2006/2.22.1)
Landscape (1991/2.88)
Landscape (1982/1.237)
Wellfleet (2012/2.120)
Rolling Mountains (1948/1.367)
Crossroad (1983/2.160)
Young Birches (1985/2.116)
Shower (1966/2.21)
Summer Landscape (1989/2.105)
Landscape (1954/1.469)
Landscape (1954/1.470)
The Awakening #5 (2013/2.119)
Unbeholding #3 (2013/2.116)
Untitled (2013/1.244)
Dust Storm (2004/2.131.2)
Sand Dune & Tree (2004/2.131.5)
The Benediction (2013/2.117)
Sunset (1954/1.170)
Twilight (1968/2.67)
Lotus Blossom (1991/1.67)
Two Figures (1958/1.139)
Mt. Hua (1984/2.46)
Tao Yüan-ming (1982/1.197)
Environs of Paris (1974/1.123)
Kyoto (2000/2.133)
Mer de glaces (2015/2.69)
Maui #1 (2015/2.112)
Maui #2 (2015/2.113)
Grand Cayman (2015/2.114)
Bali #1 (2015/2.115)
Puglia (2015/2.116)
Hawaii (2015/2.117)
Thailand (2015/2.118)
Jacksonport (2015/2.13)
Factory (2015/2.15)
Alabama #19-6 (2015/2.52)
Alabama #17-7 (2015/2.51)
Alabama #18-6 (2015/2.53)
Rock Cliff (1959/1.119)

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