Object Details
- Artist
- Delilah Montoya, born Fort Worth, TX 1955
- Exhibition Label
- Montoya’s rough-hewn landscapes recall the work of nineteenth-century photographers that presented uninhabited views of the U.S. western frontier. She shot Desire Lines, Baboquivari Peak, AZ on the Tohono O’odham Reservation, an indigenous nation that resides on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. One member, concerned about the fate of border crossers within his own tribe, peppers the landscape with water-filled jugs. In these photographs, Montoya poses ethical questions about the nature of national borders.
- Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art, 2013
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Gilberto Cardenas Latino Art Collection
- Copyright
- © 2004, Delilah Montoya
- 2004, printed 2008
- Object number
- 2011.52.2
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- Photography-Photoprint
- Medium
- inkjet print
- Dimensions
- image: 19 x 47 1/2 in. (48.3 x 120.7 cm) sheet: 24 x 52 7/8 in. (61.0 x 134.4 cm)
- See more items in
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Graphic Arts
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Landscape\mountain
- Landscape\weather\cloud
- Record ID
- saam_2011.52.2
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk7b3b571f8-b81c-4816-b3b3-76341d377444
