untitled (Jerome, Arizona), Leland D. Rice

Artwork Overview

born 1940
untitled (Jerome, Arizona), 1977
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: chromogenic color print
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 44.3 x 55.3 cm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 17 7/16 x 21 3/4 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 24 x 32 in
Credit line: Gift of Connie and Jack Glenn
Accession number: 1985.0322
Not on display

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These photographs depict operating rooms in the rural United States. The image on the right—taken by studio photographer Joseph Judd Pennell while documenting the army post of Fort Riley, Kansas—communicates calm and order amid equipment that was cutting edge in 1906. The image on the left was taken in Jerome, Arizona, an early mining settlement that is now a “ghost town.” The eerie abandonment of ghost towns is mirrored in the scene: a bare hospital bed positioned beneath a surgical light in a dilapidated facility.

Exhibitions

Cassandra Mesick Braun, curator
2021
Cassandra Mesick Braun, curator
2021