William Clift

Rainbow , Waldo New Mexico
1978

A black and white photograph depicting a dramatic sky with dark clouds and a faint rainbow arching over a landscape with distant mountains and a sparsely vegetated foreground. The image is framed with a white border, and there is a signature in the lower right corner.
A black and white photograph depicting a dramatic sky with dark clouds and a faint rainbow arching over a landscape with distant mountains and a sparsely vegetated foreground. The image is framed with a white border, and there is a signature in the lower right corner.

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Date
1978

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Hand colored gelatin silver print

Dimensions
Overall (on mat board): 24 15/16 × 32in. (63.3 × 81.3 cm) Sheet: 15 7/8 × 23 15/16in. (40.3 × 60.8 cm) Image: 15 7/8 × 22 7/8in. (40.3 × 58.1 cm)

Accession number
2004.883

Edition
11/40

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Faith G. Golding

Rights and reproductions
© artist or artist’s estate

API
artworks/24200

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