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On the road to Robert and Jane's house, Madison County, NC
On the road to Robert and Jane's house, Madison County, NC

On the road to Robert and Jane's house, Madison County, NC

Artist Rob Amberg American, born 1947
Date1990; printed 1992
MediumGelatin-silver print
Dimensionsheight and width: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
image: 12 × 17 3/4 in. (30.5 × 45.1 cm)
frame: 22 1/4 × 28 1/4 × 1 1/2 in. (56.5 × 71.8 × 3.8 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the William R. Roberson Jr. and Frances M. Roberson Endowed Fund for North Carolina Art
Object number2004.8.1
On View
Not on view
Label TextRob Amberg has spent more than twenty years documenting the rural life of western North Carolina. His work captures the social, cultural, and economic changes to a community and the direct impact of those changes on the lives of the people who live there.

This is one of six works in the NCMA collection from The Vanishing Culture of Agriculture, an ongoing project that documents a way of life that is slowly disappearing in the South—the life of the small farmer.

[L. Dougherty, 2007]ProvenanceCreated Madison County, NC, 1990; printed 1992; collection of the artist; sold to NCMA, 2004.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Contemporary NC Photography from the Museum's Collection," (part 2) November 19, 2006 - February 18, 2007.

Winston-Salem, NC, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), "Contemporary North Carolina Photographs from the North Carolina Museum of Art," October 28, 2007-March 2, 2008.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “Panorama: North Carolina,” October 8, 2016–February 12, 2017.
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