{"data":{"id":"10219","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":10219,"topgoose_id":67,"portfolio_id":null,"tms_id":10219,"title":"Motel, Colorado Springs","display_artist_text":"Robert Adams","display_date":"1969, printed c. 1970","accession_number":"96.12","dimensions":"Mount: 13 × 11 in. (33 × 27.9 cm)\r\nOverall: 5 7/8 × 5 15/16 in. (14.9 × 15.1 cm)","medium":"Gelatin silver print mounted on paperboard","department":"collection","classification":"Photographs","credit_line":"Purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee","is_virtual":false,"is_portfolio":false,"portfolio_tms_id":null,"portfolio":"The New West","edition":null,"publication_info":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eRobert Adams, \u003cem\u003eMotel, Colorado Springs\u003c/em\u003e, 1969, printed c. 1970. Gelatin silver print mounted on paperboard, mount: 13 × 11 in. (33 × 27.9 cm)\r\nOverall: 5 7/8 × 5 15/16 in. (14.9 × 15.1 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee 96.12. © Robert Adams\u003cbr\u003eCourtesy Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco \u0026 Matthew Marks Gallery, New York\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":"\u003cp\u003eWith \u003ci\u003eMotel\u003c/i\u003e, Robert Adams achieves what he once described as “that perfectly balanced frame where everything fits.” Adams has captured the Colorado Springs motel in such a way that the building forms a precise horizontal bar across the photograph, while the tail ends of unmistakably American-made automobiles edge into the foreground, and a distant mountain range fades into the silvery mist. The contrast between the majestic grandeur of the mountains and the banality of the motel and cars—those familiar icons of American suburbia—is presented neutrally; the natural and the manmade simply coexist.\u003c/p\u003e","ai_alt_text":"A black-and-white motel with three vintage cars parked in front and mountains behind.","alt_text":null,"visual_description":null,"on_view":false,"created_at":"2017-08-30T15:26:34.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-02-06T11:59:13.488-05:00","images":[{"id":101059,"url":"https://whitneymedia.org/assets/artwork/10219/96_12_cropped.jpg"}]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"4418","type":"artist"}]}}}}