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Hanford Desert

Hanford Desert

Artist/Maker (American, 1891–1972)
Dateca. 1960
MediumBall-point pen and crayon on paper
DimensionsOverall: 12 × 19 in. (30.5 × 48.2 cm)
Credit LineFund for Contemporary Art
Object number1973.38
Status
Not on view
Copyright© Estate of Joseph E. YoakumMore Information
Yoakum's ancestral ties to Navajo culture may have prompted his unique synthesis of the "world as dreamed" and the "world as lived." His beautiful and enigmatic landscapes are more spiritual interpretations than topographical descriptions of a given place.

At the heart of the Hanford Desert in Washington State is the Hanford Site, a plutonium production plant established in 1942 as part of the Manhattan Project.
Exhibition History
In Recognition of Black History Month
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (February 3, 1987 - February 28, 1987 )
African American Artists: Selections from the Permanent Collection
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (February 16, 1999 - March 21, 1999 )
Changing Visions of the North American Landscape
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (October 24, 2000 - January 28, 2001 )
Modern and Contemporary Realisms
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 6, 2013 - June 22, 2014 )
Anthropocene Aesthetics
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 19, 2023 - December 12, 2023 )
Collections
  • Modern & Contemporary
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