Institute for Blind Children, Port-au-Prince, Haiti

1995

Melanie Barocas

Associated Names
Melanie Eve Barocas

Artist, American, born 1960

The image shows a young girl with short, curly hair leaning on a balustrade with closed eyes. She holds a stuffed animal in her hands and wears a checkered dress with short sleeves. In the background, there is a long corridor with a metal fence beside the balustrade. Sunlight casts shadows through the fence onto the shaded corridor floor. At the end of the corridor, a person is partially visible. The scene implies an outdoor or semi-enclosed environment, potentially part of a building's exterior.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    gelatin silver print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Miela and Rick Mayer

  • Dimensions

    image: 30.2 x 45.4 cm (11 7/8 x 17 7/8 in.)
    sheet: 40.5 x 50.5 cm (15 15/16 x 19 7/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2001.127.2

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Gift to NGA, 2001.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1998

  • Eden: Selected Photographs, Melanie Eve Barocas. Guilford, CT, 1998, pl. 39.

Inscriptions

on window mat, below image in graphite: Institute of Blind Children Port-au-Prince, Haiti Artist Proof 1/1 Melanie Eve Barocas; lower left verso in graphite: Gift to the National Gallery of Art / from Miela Barocas Mayer and Rick Mayer; lower right verso in graphite: Melanie Eve Barocas c / Institute for Blind Children / Port-au-Prince, Haiti / Artist Proof 1/1

Wikidata ID

Q64157879

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