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Edith, Newton, Pennsylvania
1999 · gelatin silver print
Image: 12.9 x 12.8 cm (5 1/16 x 5 1/16 in.); Matted: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.)
Cleveland Museum of Art
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Emmet Gowin
1941
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70
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Emmet Gowin
Pace Gallery
2026
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Emmet Gowin photographs family portraits and aerial landscapes marked by human intervention, from pivot irrigation scars to military installations and mining sites. His often black-and-white images render the altered earth as abstract, pockmarked terrain without moral editorializing. A student of Harry Callahan at RISD, his approach to intimate and large-scale subjects shares a formal rigor rooted in that mentorship.
Source: Pace Gallery · Trust score: 100% · Updated 2mo ago
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Virginia Commonwealth University
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Rhode Island School of Design
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