Peter Brown

West Texas: Full Moon over the Chisos Mountain, Big Bend National Park

2006

Signed and titled in pencil on print margin. Jack Ridley was born in Dayton, Ohio in 1948. He spent his earliest years at Edwards Air Force in California where he first developed an appreciation of high desert landscapes. His family eventually settled in Ft. Worth, TX, and later Dallas, where Ridley currently lives and works. Ridley has been photographing Texas landscapes in black and white with large format cameras for over thirty years. Traveling to the far ridges of Texas, Ridley sets up camp for weeks at a time, thoughtfully composing and creating timeless images of Texas’ most beautiful natural spaces such as Big Bend National Park, Rio Grande National Park and The Guadalupe Mountains...

Archival Pigment Print Image size: 13 1/2 x 20 in. Paper size: 18 x 22 in. Signed and numbered in black ink on print margin by Peter Brown Available in an edition of 25, with more sizes available From the 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...

Signed, titled, dated, and print date. Paper size: 20 x 24 in. Image size: 16 x 20 in. "At least twice a year, Ridley ventures to Big Bend with his 8 x 10 view camera capturing stunning, expansive black and white images of the Rio Grande River, including the Chisos Mountain range, Dog Canyon, Emory Peak, Pine Canyon, Cattail Falls, and Punta de la Sierra...

Signed and titled in pencil on print margin. 20 x 25 in. Jack Ridley was born in Dayton, Ohio in 1948. He spent his earliest years at Edwards Air Force in California where he first developed an appreciation of high desert landscapes. His family eventually settled in Ft. Worth, TX, and later Dallas, where Ridley currently lives and works. Ridley has been photographing Texas landscapes in black and white with large format cameras for over thirty years. Traveling to the far ridges of Texas, Ridley sets up camp for weeks at a time, thoughtfully composing and creating timeless images of Texas’ most beautiful natural spaces such as Big Bend...