Pacific Gas and Electric Company

Minor White · 1947

You're looking at Pacific Gas and Electric Company — a photograph by the American artist Minor White, nineteen forty-seven. It's gelatin silver print, about 34 by 26 centimeters. It is among the darkest surfaces here: measured across the whole picture it gives back very little light.

Medium Gelatin silver print · Dimensions 13 5/16 × 10 3/8" (33.8 × 26.4 cm) · Credit Gift of Shirley Burden

Hanging beside it in Gallery 519: Gas, Sow

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Gas Pump. Set design for the ballet H.P. (Horsepower), Sky Machine, Duplicate of The Large Glass, with missing elements added or The Large Glass Completed (supplementary suite, plate 17) from The Large Glass and Related Works, Vol. 1