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Cemetery, Fountain City, Wisconsin
Cemetery, Fountain City, Wisconsin

Cemetery, Fountain City, Wisconsin

Artist Alec Soth American, born 1969
Date2002
MediumChromogenic print
Dimensions30 x 40 in. (76.2 x 101.6 cm)
Frame: 39 1/2 x 48 in. (100.3 x 121.9 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineGift of Allen G. Thomas Jr. in honor of Lawrence J. Wheeler
Object number2014.14.64
On View
Not on view
ProvenanceCreated Fountain City, WI, 2004; collection of the artist, Minneapolis; auction]; Allen G. Thomas Jr., Wilson, NC, 2009; given to NCMA, 2014.
Published ReferencesAlec Soth, Alec Soth: Sleeping by the Mississippi (Göttingen: Steidl, 2004), illus. (color)12. Alex Soth’s America, Siri Engberg, ed. (exhibition catalogue) (Minneapolis: Walter Art Center, 2010), illus. (color) 65.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Wanderlust: Photography by Alec Soth," December 23, 2012-June 30, 2013. Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, “Night (Light),” September 30, 2017–January 28, 2018. Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The Altered Environment," March 12-August 28, 2022.
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