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four large concrete tunnels in a desert landscape

Nancy Holt, Sun Tunnels (1973-76)
Great Basin Desert, Utah
oncrete, steel, earth
Overall dimensions: 9 ft. 2-1/2 in. x 68 ft. 6in. x 53 ft. (2.8 x 20.8 x 16.2 m); length on the diagonal: 86 ft. (26.2 m)
Photograph: Nancy Holt, June 1976
Collection Dia Art Foundation with support from Holt/Smithson Foundation

© Holt/Smithson Foundation and Dia Art Foundation / Licensed by Artists Rights Society, New York

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A series of twenty photographs captured along the high moor of Dartmoor National Park in Britain. Each photograph featuring an orange mark painted onto each stone marker.

1966—1969

black background with a black and white circle in the center that displays a cracked window.

1970—1972

A circular pool of water reflecting a blue sky.

1973—1976

Nancy Holt's Star-Crossed made of two large intersecting concrete tunnels

1977—1980

a concrete and metal sculpture of an undulating wall and circular steel inset into the wall

1981—1983

Nancy Holt's sculpture Electrical Lighting for Reading Room made of lightbulbs and conduit along three walls

1984—2014

Featured Works

a church in a snowy forest scene
Athabascan/Russian Orthodox Graveyards
Nancy Holt
1986
Eklutna, Alaska
a composite image of a stone quarry and a man sitting pensively in a stone quarry
Bob Quarry
Nancy Holt
1972
looking through Nancy Holt's Locator at the Art Institute of Chicago
Dual Locators
Nancy Holt
1972
a sculpture made of hot water piping
Heating System
Nancy Holt
1984-85
a circular view of a city skyline surrrounded by black
Locator in Window
Nancy Holt
1971
two people looking through sculptural seeing devices at black circular shapes painted on a white wall
Locators with Loci
Nancy Holt
1972
a collage book featuring images and text relating to the moon
Moon Book
Nancy Holt
1972
a collage of six polaroid images of cardboard tubes that are affixed to a sheet of paper
Sun Tunnels photo study collages
Nancy Holt
ca. 1975
A composite of 30 images showing shifting shadows inside one of Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels
Sun Tunnels: Shifting Shadows
Nancy Holt
1976
a football player running to the right
Time Outs
Nancy Holt
1985
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Nancy Holt’s artworks Sun Tunnels (1973-76) and Holes of Light (1973), and Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty (1970) are
© Holt/Smithson Foundation and Dia Art Foundation / Licensed by Artists Rights Society, New York
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