The Yellow Porch, Sheridan County, Nebraska

Artist Andrew Moore American, born 1957

Date2013

MediumArchival pigment print

Dimensions36 x 45 1/2 in. (91.4 x 115.6 cm)

ClassificationsPhotography

Credit LinePurchased with funds from William R. Valentiner, by exchange

Object number2014.10

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Label TextAndrew Moore's series Dirt Meridian focuses on the longitudinal line that divides east and west in the United States, presenting a view of the contemporary agricultural landscape. This image of an abandoned, weathered farmhouse set in a vast, empty landscape utilizes architecture to symbolize broad issues of cultural change and transformation, dissolution and decay.

In Moore’s words, “What’s remarkable about the 100th meridian is that as the very center line of this country, the absolute divide between East and West, it teeters between being lost in time, so to speak, yet at the same moment it’s highly affected by large scale global forces, such as climate change, energy exploration, resource management, and food production. All these issues directly affect the land along the 100th meridian and are connected to the history of the land since it was first settled. My goal for this project is to present these changes and transformations within and alongside the enduring myths of this quintessential ‘American’ landscape.”

[L. Dougherty, 2015]ProvenanceCreated Sheridan County, Nebraska, 2013; collection of the artist; [Yancey ichardson Gallery, New York]; sold to NCMA, 2014.
Published ReferencesInara Verzemnieks and Andrew Moore, “Life Along the 100th Meridian,” New York Times Magazine (December 6, 2013), illus. (color).

Thea Traff, “Along the Hundredth Merdian: Andrew Moore’s Photographs of Nebraska,” New Yorker (January 10, 2014), illus. (color): http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2014/01/andrew-moores-photographs-of-nebraska.html#slide_ss_0=1

Andrew Moore, Dirt Meridian (Bologna, Italy: Damiani, 2015), illus. (color) cover, 87, and 131.
Exhibition HistoryNew York, NY, Yancey Richardson Gallery, “Andrew Moore: Dirt Meridian,” January 9–February 15, 2014.
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