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Collections

Laura Gilpin
The Rio Grande Yields Its Surplus to the Sea1947

On view: David Geffen GalleriesPicturing the American West
Black and white photograph of a tidal flat landscape, with two curving white water channels arcing across dark mudflats beneath a gray sky and glowing horizon

Laura Gilpin, The Rio Grande Yields Its Surplus to the Sea, 1947, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Marjorie and Leonard Vernon Collection, gift of The Annenberg Foundation, acquired from Carol Vernon and Robert Turbin, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Laura Gilpin
United States, Colorado, 1891–1979
Title
The Rio Grande Yields Its Surplus to the Sea
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1947
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
Image: 9 5/8 × 13 9/16 in. (24.4 × 34.4 cm) Primary support: 10 × 13 3/4 in. (25.4 × 34.93 cm) Mat: 16 1/16 × 20 in. (40.8 × 50.8 cm)
Credit Line
The Marjorie and Leonard Vernon Collection, gift of The Annenberg Foundation, acquired from Carol Vernon and Robert Turbin
Accession Number
M.2008.40.934
Classification
Photographs
Collecting Area
Photography
Copyright
© 1979 Amon Carter Museum of American Art