"Wayne Gudmundson’s landscapes of North Dakota document a place most people dismiss as uninteresting, but his pictures prove us wrong as they record there a grandeur that we thought had been entirely lost with the passing of frontier America.

The obstacles that confronted Gudmundson, particularly in winter must have been severe. Geography like the one in which he worked is recorded convincingly only by the most ardent commitment and patience. The pictures have to appear unforced if viewers are to find them different from the clichés they have learned to reject, and Gudmundson’s views have this difficult appearance of ease. They are the best current, composite picture of their subject of which I know."

Robert Adams