Twin Tunnels, Snowshed, 1993

Glenn Rudolph
American (born 1946)

Location: University of Washington - Bothell, Bothell

About the Artwork

Artist Glenn Rudolph is recognized for his work photographing vacant landscapes, abandoned spaces, and people who inhabit them. Along the way, he indirectly captures time, place, and community. Rudolph's photographs are about the changing face of the Pacific Northwest. He often uses trainline images as a metaphor to describe the complex consequences of man-made development on people and the land.

This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with University of Washington.

About the Artist

Glenn Rudolph's photographs tell the powerful stories of the Northwest's changing landscapes and communities. He has focused on disappearing farmlands, the bankrupt Milwaukee Railroad Company, landless Indian tribes, neighborhood gardens, and abandoned mine sites among other subjects.

Rudolph is a former commercial fisher and has been a photographer since the mid-1970s. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting from the University of Washington in Seattle in 1968.

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