Camera Obscura Image of La Giraldilla de la Habana in Room under Construction (Camera Obscura Image of La Giraldilla de la Habana in room with Broken Wall)
Abelardo Morell, American, born 1948
2002
Gelatin silver print (mounted on aluminum support)
6/15
Sight: 31 1/2 in. (80 cm)
Sight: 39 3/4 in. (100.9 cm)
Frame: 43 11/16 × 51 3/4 in. (111 × 131.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Olivia H. Parker and John O. Parker '58 Acquisition Fund, the Contemporary Art Fund, the William S. Rubin Fund, and the Fund for Contemporary Photography
© Abelardo Morell
PH.2003.71
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
21st century
Object Name
Photograph
Research Area
Photograph
Not on view
Course History
GOVT 7, Politics of Cuba, Lisa Baldez, Winter 2013
SART 65, Architecture I, Karol Kawiaka, Spring 2012
SART 65, Architecture I, Karol Kawiaka, Spring 2013
SART 30, SART 75, Photography II, III, Virginia Beahan, Spring 2013
SART 29, Photography I, Virginia Beahan, Summer 2013
GOVT 7, Politics and Culture of Cuba, Lisa Baldez, Winter 2014
SART 65, Architecture I, Karol Kawiaka, Winter 2014
SART 29, Photography I, Virginia Beahan, Winter 2014
SART 29, Photography I, Virginia Beahan, Summer 2014
SART 29, Photography I, Christina Seely, Winter 2015
SART 29, Photography I, Christina Seely, Spring 2019
SART 29, Photography I, Virginia Beahan, Summer 2019
SART 29, Photography I, Christina Seely, Fall 2019
SART 29/SART 75, Photography 1/Photography 3, Virginia Beahan, Winter 2020
ARTH 48.02, History of Photography, Katie Hornstein, Winter 2020
LACS 1.01, LACS 1.02, Introduction to Latin American and the Carribbean, Fall 2020
SPAN 7.02, Mural Art in Mexico, Douglas Moody, Spring 2021
SPAN 7.02, Mural Art in Mexico, Douglas Moody, Spring 2021
Exhibition History
A Space for Dialogue 72, Escaping the Moment, Seeing Time in Photography, Chanon (Kenji) Praepipatmongkol, Class of 2013, Mellon Special Project Curatorial Intern, Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, August 18-September 23, 2012.
Cuba on the Verge: An Island in Transition, 6 June-31 August 2003, International Center for Photography, New York.
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.
Main Lobby, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 29-October 10, 2004.
Publication History
T. McCoy, ed., Cuba on the Verge: An Island in Transition, Boston: Bullfinch Press, 2003, repr. pp. 90-91.
E. Leffingwell, "Photography: Focus on Cuba," in Art in America, Nov. 2003, p. 67.
S. Boxer, "A Harsh Romance in a Land of Ruins and Revolution," Havana Journal, July 2003.
Emily Shubert Burke, Focus on Photography, Works for 1950 to Today, Hanover, New Hampshire: Trustees of Dartmouth College, 2009, p. 7, no. 6.
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.207, no.267.
Chanon (Kenji) Praepipatmongkol, A Space for Dialogue 72, Escaping the Moment, Seeing Time In Photography, Hanover, New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2012, ill. cover.
Published References
D. Gaston, Abelardo Morell and the Camera Eye (San Diego: Museum of Photographic Arts, 1998). C . Simic, et al., Abelardo Morell-Face to Face: Photographs at the Isabella Steward Gardener Museum (Hanover: University Press of New England, 1999).
Provenance
Artist; Bonni Benrubi Gallery, Inc., New York, New York; sold to present collection, 2003.
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