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Ray Mortenson

Ray Mortenson

American, 1944
WA-00043534
Photography
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None documented
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Institutional Exhibitions
16
Works in Collection
18
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2
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  • Is PublishedManual· 100%
  • Birth yearArtsy· 85%

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Ray Mortenson is a New York-based landscape photographer who has documented the metropolitan corridor of the US' northeastern landscape since the 1970s. From 1979-84, he made black and white photographs of the industrial tidal marshes in the New Jersey Meadowlands and abandoned buildings in The Bronx. Mortenson's work has been widely exhibited since the 1980s and is held in the permanent collections of over forty institutions in the US, Canada, France and Japan.

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16 published of 16 catalogued · 10 with image
  • Art Institute Chicago
    10 published10 img
  • Cleveland Museum of Art
    6 published

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6 entries · 1 sources
  • 9-4-01 (Meadowlands, New Jersey)
    2009 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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  • 5-30-09-4 (Meadowlands, New Jersey)
    2001 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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  • 06-15-93-7 (Island Pond)
    1993 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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  • 08-25-93-10 (Island Pond)
    1993 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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  • Untitled
    1984 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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  • Untitled
    1980 · Cleveland · 1 prov
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Standard Chlorine, Kearny (Art Institute of Chicago)
Art Institute of Chicago

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Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, United States
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