Richard Misrach

Rocky Flats Mesa, Colorado
1987

A framed photograph of a landscape depicting a vast, golden field with a single tree in the distance, set against a backdrop of mountain ridges under a cloudy sky. To the left, a text panel provides historical context about Rocky Flats Mesa, Colorado, in 1987, detailing its history as a plutonium trigger production site for nuclear warheads and the environmental issues associated with it.
A framed photograph of a landscape depicting a vast, golden field with a single tree in the distance, set against a backdrop of mountain ridges under a cloudy sky. To the left, a text panel provides historical context about Rocky Flats Mesa, Colorado, in 1987, detailing its history as a plutonium trigger production site for nuclear warheads and the environmental issues associated with it.

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Date
1987

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Screenprint and chromogenic print mounted on boards

Dimensions
Overall (framed): 17 3/4 × 41 5/8 × 1in. (45.1 × 105.7 × 2.5 cm) Overall (sight): 15 9/16 × 39 7/16 × 1/8in. (39.5 × 100.2 × 0.3 cm)

Accession number
2012.92a-c

Series
Desert Canto X: The Test Site

Edition
4/5

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Robert Mann and Orly Cogan

Rights and reproductions
© Richard Misrach, 1987

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