Mount Rushmore National Monument, Where The Faces Of Four U.S. Presidents Are Carved Or, As Many Native People Say, Scarred Into The Sacred Black Hills (Paha Sapa)

© John Willis

Mount Rushmore National Monument, Where The Faces Of Four U.S. Presidents Are Carved Or, As Many Native People Say, Scarred Into The Sacred Black Hills (Paha Sapa)

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Mount Rushmore National Monument, Where The Faces Of Four U.S. Presidents Are Carved Or, As Many Native People Say, Scarred Into The Sacred Black Hills (Paha Sapa),

2007

John Willis, American, born 1957
2013-66

Information

Title
Mount Rushmore National Monument, Where The Faces Of Four U.S. Presidents Are Carved Or, As Many Native People Say, Scarred Into The Sacred Black Hills (Paha Sapa)
Dates

2007

Maker
John Willis
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 45.6 x 56.3 cm. (17 15/16 x 22 3/16 in.) sheet: 50.8 x 61 cm. (20 x 24 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Richard S. and Jeanne Press
Object Number
2013-66
Place Depicted

North America, United States, South Dakota, Mount Rushmore National Monument

Culture
American
Type
oil paintings, photographs, gelatin silver prints, black-and-white photographs
Techniques
gelatin silver process
Subject
landscapes (representations), national monuments, roads, mountains, pine trees

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