Grain Elevators, Minneapolis I, Frank Gohlke

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Frank Gohlke, Grain Elevators, Minneapolis I
Frank Gohlke, Grain Elevators, Minneapolis I
Frank Gohlke
Grain Elevators, Minneapolis I
1972
Frank Gohlke
born 1942
Grain Elevators, Minneapolis I, 1972
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: gelatin silver print
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 21 x 20.3 cm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 8 1/4 x 8 0.99213 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 19 x 14 in
Credit line: Museum purchase: National Endowment for the Arts and State funds
Accession number: 1975.0034
Not on display
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Exhibition Label: "Claimed: Land Use in Western America," Jun-2007, Kate Meyer “There’s a simple reason for the grain elevators, as there is for everything, but the forces behind the reason, the reason for the reason, is the land and the sky. There is too much sky out there, for one thing, too much horizontal, too many lines without stops, so that the exclamation, the perpendicular, had to come. Anyone who was born and raised on the plains knows that the high false front on the Feed Store, and the white water tower, are not a question of vanity. It’s a problem of being. Of knowing you are there.” Wright Morris, The Home Place, 1948