Mammoth Hot Springs, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming Artist: Lois Conner (American, born 1951, M.F.A. 1981)

1990

Photography

Lois Conner’s photographs of the American West conjure the monumental vistas of the American frontier as first captured by nineteenth-century survey photographers. Conner focuses on landscapes with long human histories, such as the Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park. The founding of Yellowstone as the first U.S. national park in 1872 obscures the reality that Indigenous people have lived there for thousands of years. Conner, whose maternal grandmother was Cree, is steadfast in her attentiveness to the particular ways in which culture and history lend special meaning to a place. Her delicate platinum prints reveal enduring traces of the landscape’s past.

Medium

Platinum print

Dimensions

image: 6 9/16 × 16 9/16 in. (16.6 × 42 cm)
sheet: 8 7/16 × 18 3/4 in. (21.5 × 47.7 cm)

Credit Line

Janet and Simeon Braguin Fund

Accession Number

2012.109.3

Culture
Period

20th century

Classification
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Artist
Bibliography
  • Lisa Hodermarsky et al., On the Basis of Art: 150 Years of Women at Yale, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2021), 136, 186, 189, 236, no. 30, fig. 5
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Additional information

Object/Work type

platinum prints

Inscriptions

Recto, LL, in graphite: Yellowstone National Park, 1990/ OW90033/ 3/25 /89012d/ 161H106dc/ 29.19102/ Lois Conner

Signed

Recto lower R, in graphite: Lois Conner

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