Jim Bones

Lace Cactus and Yellow Sand, Austin, Texas

1978

West Texas: Ocotillo in Bloom, Mule Ears Peaks, Big Bend National Park by Peter Brown is listed 13 1/2 x 20 inch archival pigment print, with the paper size as 18 x 22 inches. This photograph is signed and numbered in black ink on print margin by Peter Brown. This size is available in an edition of 25, with more sizes available. This photograph is from Peter Brown series, Hometown Texas. West Texas: Ocotillo in Bloom by Peter Brown depicts a desert landscape lit by the setting sun, with the Mule Ears Peaks at Big Bend National Park in the background. Peter Brown attended Stanford University (BA English, MFA Photography) and has taught in the art departments at Rice and at Stanford. He has exhibited and published his work widely. His photographic awards include the Dorothea Lange – Paul Taylor Prize (with Kent Haruf) from the Duke Center for Documentary Studies; an Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for a photo-essay published in DoubleTake; an Imogen Cunningham Award for his portfolio Seasons of Light; a graduate fellowship from the Carnegie Foundation; an Artist’s Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts; an Artist’s Grant from the Cultural Arts Council of Houston and a publication grant from the Graham Foundation. His book On the Plains won the Fred Whitehead Award from the Texas Institute of Letters. He presently is photographing the Llano Estacado of Texas and New Mexico under a grant from the Southwest Collection at Texas Tech University and the central high plains in a collaboration with the novelist Kent Haruf. His book with Haruf, West of Last Chance, will be published by W.W. Norton in January 2008. His photographs are in many public, private, university and corporate collections, including those of the Museum of Fine Arts and the Menil Collection in Houston, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angles County Museum of Art and the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the Stanford University Museum of Art, the Rice University Collection, The Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas Austin, the Sheldon Museum at the University of Nebraska, the Spencer Museum at the University of Kansas, the Snipe Museum at Notre Dame, and the University of Kentucky Museum of Art, among many others. His work has been exhibited in one man and group shows in museums and galleries in this country and abroad. Among others: The Museum of Modern Art in New York; The Museum of Fine Arts and the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston; The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. His first book Seasons of Light, consisted of photographs of interior scenes with Brown’s short prose pieces, and was published with an afterword and poetry by Denise Levertov by Rice University Press in 1988. It was excerpted in American Photographer. His second, On The Plains, dealt with the open landscape and small towns of the western plains. Published with an introduction by Kathleen Norris by W.W. Norton, On the Plains was excerpted in DoubleTake, LIFE, The New Yorker, Aperture and Texas Monthly. His forthcoming book West of Last Chance, will be excerpted in Harpers, Texas Monthly and 5280. His work has also appeared in Dwell, House and Garden, Landscape Architecture, Duke, Stanford, Popular Photography, American Photographer, FotoMetro, Southwest Art, American Cowboy and other magazines - as well as on the covers of books by Annie Proulx, Jane Smiley...

Edition of 15 Signed, titled and dated. Toned gelatin silver print Chema Madoz is one of the most important contemporary Spanish photographers, who is greatly known for his monochro...

Gelatin silver print, 6 7/8 x 4 3/4 in. Title & artist label, Freundeskreis/Ernst Fuhrmann

Edition of 30 Signed, titled, dated and numbered Artist Copyright Stamp Texas Wildflower Portfolio 1979

Artist Commentary: This image was taken in the desert in Arizona near Scottsdale in the spring Keywords: purple, cactus, desert, southwest, flower, juxtaposition, opposites, arizon...

This fotograph belongs to the collection CACTI & SUCCULENTS. This series is dedicated to the idea of abstract portraits that focus on the special characteristics (shape, structure, c...

This fotograph belongs to the collection CACTI & SUCCULENTS. This series is dedicated to the idea of abstract portraits that focus on the special characteristics (shape, structure, c...

This fotograph belongs to the collection CACTI & SUCCULENTS. This series is dedicated to the idea of abstract portraits that focus on the special characteristics (shape, structure, c...