Jim Smyre and family planting tobacco, Iredell County, NC

Artist Rob Amberg American, born 1947

Date1987; printed 1992

MediumGelatin-silver print

Dimensionsheight and width: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
image: 11 1/2 × 17 3/4 in. (29.2 × 45. 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 number2004.8.2

On View

Not on view

ProvenanceCreated Iredell County, NC, 1987; printed 1992; collection of the artist; given to NCMA, 2004.
Published ReferencesQuartet: Four North Carolina Photographers (New London, NH and Asheville, NC: Safe Harbor Books, 2005), illustrated, unnumbered page.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Contemporary NC Photography from the Museum's Collection," (part 1) September 3-November 5, 2006.

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. Object Rights Statement

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