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117. On Humbug Mountain, Clatsop County, Oregon.  after an age of leaves and feathers  someone dead  thought of this mountain as money  and cut the trees  that were here in the wind  in the rain at night  it is hard to say it  W. S. Merwin From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration
117. On Humbug Mountain, Clatsop County, Oregon. after an age of leaves and feathers someone dead thought of this mountain as money and cut the trees that were here in the wind in the rain at night it is hard to say it W. S. Merwin From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration

117. On Humbug Mountain, Clatsop County, Oregon. after an age of leaves and feathers someone dead thought of this mountain as money and cut the trees that were here in the wind in the rain at night it is hard to say it W. S. Merwin From Turning Back, A Photographic Journal of Re-exploration

Artist (American, born 1937)
Date1999–2003
Period20th-21st century
MediumGelatin silver print on paper
DimensionsMat Size: 14 x 18 inches
Credit LinePurchase with funds provided by Kathy and Richard S. Fuld, Jr.
Object number2006.026.117
Curatorial DepartmentModern & Contemporary Art
_Place of OriginUnited States