McLean, Virginia (Pumpkins)

Joel Sternfeld, American, born 1944

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negative December 1978; print May 1986

Dye transfer print

Sheet: 15 15/16 × 19 7/8 in. (40.5 × 50.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Joel Sternfeld, Class of 1965, and Neil Grossman, Class of 1965, in memory of John Pickells (1942-1972), Class of 1965

© Joel Sternfeld

PH.986.24

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Photograph

Research Area

Photograph

Not on view

Inscriptions

Inscribed, on reverse, lower left ot right, in black marker: Dye Transfer Print McLean, Virginia, December 1978; N - December 1978 / P - May 1986; signed, lower center left: Joel Sternfeld

Course History

FREN 7, French Graphic Novels, Annabelle Cone, Spring 2013

ENVS 80, Writing Our Way Home: The Writing That Sustains Us, Terry Tempest Williams, Spring 2013

WRIT 5, Expository Writing, William Craig, Winter 2014

SART 30, Photography II, Virginia Beahan, Spring 2014

ARTH 48.02, History of Photography, Katie Hornstein, Winter 2020

Exhibition History

A Selection of Photographs from the Hood Museum of Art, Jaffe-Friede Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 4-March 15, 1987.

Focus on Photography, Works from 1950 to Today, Friends and Owen Robertson Cheatham Galleries, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 13-March 8, 2009.

Hopkins Center 25th Aniversary Exhibition: Artists-In-Residence at Dartmouth, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 12-May 22, 1988.

In Residence: Contemporary Art at Dartmouth, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 18-March 19, 2014.

Joel Sternfeld, Artist-in-Residence, Jaffe-Friede and Strauss Galleries, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 23-December 4, 1985, checklist no. 50.

The Photographer's Eye, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, SArt 29 & 30, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, May 8-June 13, 2003.

Word and Image in Contemporary Art, Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, March 26-August 4, 2013.

Publication History

Emily Shubert Burke, Focus on Photography, Works for 1950 to Today, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2009, p. 11-12, no. 21.

Brian P. Kennedy and Emily Shubert Burke, Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Hanover: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2009 p.202, no.247.

Michael R. Taylor and Gerald Auten, In Residence: Contemporary Artists at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2013, ill. p. 65 , no. 52

John R. Stomberg, The Hood Now: Art and Inquiry at Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2019, p. 185, ill. plate no. 116.

Provenance

Joel Sternfeld (Class of 1965) , New York, New York and Neil Grossman (1943-2002, Class of 1965) [in memory of John Lovell Pickells, Jr. (1942-1972), Class of 1965]; given to present collection, 1986.

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