1970—1972

person sitting on the ground on a rooftop with a large pile of books beside them

Bob with Books

Nancy Holt

1971

Roof of 799 Greenwich St., New York

a circular jetty and canal with a large boulder in the center

Breaking Ground: Broken Circle/Spiral Hill

Nancy Holt

1971/2011

a sign that says "Sun Dried Fruits" above a concrete culvert

California Sun Signs

Nancy Holt

1972

collaged elements including two fortune cookies and a cardinal direction chart

Chinese Dinner

Nancy Holt

1972

Dual Locators

Nancy Holt

1972

a vertical steel pole with a horizontal viewing pipe directed at a black circle painted in the corner of a room

Locator (Studio Corner)

Nancy Holt

1971

Shared studio space in Nancy Holt and Robert Smithson's loft in New York City

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

Locator (Cracked Window)

Nancy Holt

1971

Artist's Greenwich Street Studio, New York

black background with a black and white circle in the center that displays an exhaust pipe

Locator (Exhaust Pipe)

Nancy Holt

1971

Artist's Greenwich Street Studio, New York

a room with an ellipse of light on a wall on the left, a locator in the middle, and a cutout in a window on the right

Locator with Spotlight and Sunlight

Nancy Holt

1972

an ink drawing on graph paper depicting three intersecting lines as that trace Holt's identity as a "feminist" "mystic" and "artist"

Making Waves

Nancy Holt

1972

Chaotic image of many criss-crossing reeds with a dark background

Swamp

Nancy Holt

1971

typewritten words in a large circle above a paragraph of words on yellowing paper

The World Through a Circle

Nancy Holt

ca. 1970

Tour of the John Weber Gallery

Nancy Holt

1972

John Weber Gallery, New York, NY, USA

a yellowing piece of letter size paper with words typewritten in the shape of an inverted triangle in the center of the paper

Untitled (Disconsolate)

Nancy Holt

ca. 1970

a dead pelican encrusted in salt crystals

Utah Sequences

Nancy Holt

1970

Rozel Point, Utah