Earth, Fire, and Water, Z-Bar Ranch, Chase County, Kansas

Larry Schwarm, artist

born 1944

Earth, Fire, and Water, Z-Bar Ranch, Chase County, Kansas, 1994

Where object was made: United States

Material/technique: chromogenic color print (Ektacolor™)

Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 44.5 x 43.7 cm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 17 1/2 x 17 3/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 32 x 24 in

Credit line: Museum purchase: Terry and Sam Evans Fund

Accession number: 1998.0052

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Spencer Museum of Art Highlights

Larry Schwarm earned his MFA. in photography from the University of Kansas and is now a professor at Emporia State University. The location allows him to access grasslands and pastures to record annual prairie burnings. This cycle of spring burning is essential to maintaining the grassland ecosystem and stimulates early plant growth for grazing. Schwarm explores the formal and spiritual potential of this process through his simple compositions that maximize intensity of color and contrast. This photograph was made at the Z Bar Ranch, now part of the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve.

The Power of Place: KU Alumni Artists

A native of Kansas, Larry Schwarm is perhaps best known for the significant work he has done photographing the practice of burning parts of the prairie in the early spring to spur the best plant growth. This cycle of spring burning is essential to maintaining the grassland ecosystem and stimulates early plant growth for grazing. Schwarm explores the formal and spiritual potential of this process through his simple compositions that maximize intensity of color and contrast. This photograph was made at the Z Bar Ranch, a national preserve for the Tallgrass Prairie.

The Power of Place: KU Alumni Artists

Google Art Project

Exhibition Label:
"Windmills to Workshops: Lawrence and the Visual Arts," Jul-2004, Kate Meyer
Larry Schwarm earned his M.F.A. in Photography from KU and is now a professor at Emporia State University. The location allows him to access grasslands and pastures to record annual prairie burnings. This cycle of spring burning is essential to maintaining the grassland ecosystem and stimulates early plant growth for grazing. Schwarm explores the formal and spiritual potential of this process through his simple compositions that maximize intensity of color and contrast. This photograph was made at the Z Bar Ranch, a national preserve for the Tallgrass Prairie.