Object number2017.15

Camera Obscura Image of Manhattan Looking West in Empty Room

Date1996

Artist Abelardo Morell (American, born Cuba 1948)

CultureAmerican

MediumGelatin silver print

DimensionsSheet: 29 1/4 x 38 1/4 in. (74.3 x 97.2 cm)
Framed: 40 x 49 x 1 7/8 in. (101.6 x 124.5 x 4.7 cm)

Credit LineGift of Shelley Farmer Allen, class of 1992

On View

Not on view

Period20th c

Classification(s)

Photograph

SignedOn a label affixed to the reverse of the frame, signed in ink: ABELARDO MORELL

InscribedOn a label affixed to the reverse of frame, by artist, in ink: CAMERA OBSCURA/IMAGE OF / MANHATTAN VIEW LOOKING / WEST IN EMPTY ROOM, 1996

BibliographyLombino, Mary-Kay. Shape of Light: Defining Photographs from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center. Poughkeepsie, NY: Vassar College, 2019, p. 6 ProvenanceCollection of Joshua P. Smith;
Rago Auctions, Collection of Joshua P. Smith, May 19, 2007, lot 74;
purchased by Shelley Farmer Allen

Vassar Exhibitions

Shape of Light: Defining Photographs from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center

Exhibition HistoryShape of Light: Defining Photographs from the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, September 20 - December 15, 2019
DescriptionBlack and white image of a plain interior with two doors and a four-step ladder off to the left side. Taking up three quarters of the picture plane is a horizontal band of New York City skyline flipped upside down projected onto the walls and doors. The view of the city is from the east side looking west, with central park in the midground and the west side visible opposite.

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