WATTS INDEXThe canonical database of visual culture

Artists›Ray Mortenson

Ray Mortenson

American, 1944

WA-00043534

Photography

Representation

None documented

Institutional Exhibitions

Works in Collection

Assets Indexed

Authority-backed Facts

Publications Referenced

60%

Profile Completeness

Cultural Positioning

Influence Graph

No influence edges encoded yet.

Authority Records (1)

WikidataQ7297867

Field Verification (2 fields)

2 cross-verified · 0 single-source

Is PublishedManual· 100%✓
Birth yearArtsy· 85%✓

Source Registry (1)

Aichttps://www.artic.edu/artists/17809
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred95%

About

Why this artist matters now

Ray Mortenson is a New York-based landscape photographer who has documented the metropolitan corridor of the US' northeastern landscape since the 1970s. From 1979-84, he made black and white photographs of the industrial tidal marshes in the New Jersey Meadowlands and abandoned buildings in The Bronx. Mortenson's work has been widely exhibited since the 1980s and is held in the permanent collections of over forty institutions in the US, Canada, France and Japan.

Source: Aic · Trust score: 95% · Updated 21d ago

Graph relationships

Taste overlap and adjacency

Movement

—

Medium

Photography

Related Artists

6 in graph

Institutional

Museum Collections

Art Institute of ChicagoChicago

Canonical record

Artworks (6)

WattsOS

9-4-01 (Meadowlands, New Jersey)

2009 · gelatin silver print

Image: 14.7 x 18.5 cm (5 13/16 x 7 5/16 in.); Paper: 20.1 x 25 cm (7 15/16 x 9 13/16 in.); Matted: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

WattsOS

5-30-09-4 (Meadowlands, New Jersey)

2001 · gelatin silver print

Image: 8.3 x 24.2 cm (3 1/4 x 9 1/2 in.); Paper: 20.2 x 25.2 cm (7 15/16 x 9 15/16 in.); Matted: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

WattsOS

06-15-93-7 (Island Pond)

1993 · platinum print

Image: 20 x 24.5 cm (7 7/8 x 9 5/8 in.); Paper: 24.3 x 29 cm (9 9/16 x 11 7/16 in.); Matted: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

WattsOS

08-25-93-10 (Island Pond)

1993 · platinum print

Image: 20 x 24.4 cm (7 7/8 x 9 5/8 in.); Paper: 24.3 x 29 cm (9 9/16 x 11 7/16 in.); Matted: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

WattsOS

Untitled

1984 · gelatin silver print

Paper: 32.1 x 24.1 cm (12 5/8 x 9 1/2 in.); Image: 20.3 x 13.5 cm (8 x 5 5/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

WattsOS

Untitled

1980 · gelatin silver print

Paper: 20.3 x 25.4 cm (8 x 10 in.); Image: 14.2 x 19.2 cm (5 9/16 x 7 9/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Artwork sources (2)

6 published of 16 catalogued · 10 with image

Cleveland Museum of Art
6 published
+ 1 more source · 10 catalogued, not yet published

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 6)

6 entries · 1 sources

Untitled
1980 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
06-15-93-7 (Island Pond)
1993 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
5-30-09-4 (Meadowlands, New Jersey)
2001 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Untitled
1984 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
08-25-93-10 (Island Pond)
1993 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
9-4-01 (Meadowlands, New Jersey)
2009 · Cleveland · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number

Record

Images

Artsy

Art Institute of Chicago

Relationships

Collections1

Art Institute of Chicago

Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Record

Exhibitions and timeline

No exhibitions or timeline entries yet