Movies, from the portfolio Urban Landscapes No. 3
Richard Estes, American, born 1932
1981
Screenprint on wove paper
124/250
Overall: 14 × 20 in. (35.6 × 50.8 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Judith and Eugene H. Kohn, Class of 1960
PR.982.63.2
Publisher
Parasol Press, Ltd., New York, New York
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
20th century
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, in graphite, lower right margin: Richard Estes; inscribed, in graphite, lower left margin: 124/250; embossed, lower left: DOMBERGER SCREENPRINT
Label
The print depicts a street-level view of city architecture, captured in the reflection of a window. From a distance, it appears to be a photograph; only upon closer examination do we realize it is not. Indeed, we see no reflection of a photographer, camera, or ourselves.
Estes was interested in the potential for abstraction in windows. In this work, there are so many levels of reflected rectangles which overlap and obscure one another that it becomes difficult to distinguish between outside and inside. The window serves as a surface on which we see a new blended reality.
From the 2023 exhibition A Space for Dialogue 113, On View: Windows in Art, curated by Leigh Smith '23, Erbe Intern
Exhibition History
A Space for Dialogue 113, On View: Windows in Art, Leigh Smith '23, Erbe Intern, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 1 - August 12, 2023.
Art Since 1945: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 19, 1992-March 14, 1993.
Recent Acquistions: Carraci to Warhol, Lower Jewett Corridor, Hopkins Center Art Galleries, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, October-December, 1983.
Reunion display, Churchill P. Lathrop Gallery, Elevator vestibule, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 1-October 2, 2005.
Ruscha and Pop: Icons of the 1960's, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 12-June 15, 2008.
Signspotting: Twentieth-Century Photographs, Prints, and Paintings from the Collection, Harrington Gallery Teaching Exhibition, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, June 30-August 26, 2001.
Publication History
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.191, no.211.
Provenance
Judith and Eugene H. Kohn, Waban, Massachusetts; given to present collection, 1982.
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