Camera Obscura: View of Lower Manhattan, Sunrise

2022

Abelardo Morell

Associated Names
Abelardo Morell

Artist, American, born Cuba, 1948

This photograph shows an upside-down city skyline stretching horizontally across the middle of the image. Buildings appear to hang from a blank gray expanse, while a blue sky is below them, full of streaky white clouds and yellow rays of light. This image of the city appears to be painted or projected onto a white wall. There is an outlet towards the bottom of the wall, and a smoke detector or similar alarm in the top right corner. A door is visible on the right side of the wall, and warm orange light leaks into the scene from the spaces between the door and the wall. Below the wall is a brown wooden floor.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    inkjet print

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Abelardo Morell

  • Dimensions

    image: 57.15 × 76.2 cm (22 1/2 × 30 in.)
    sheet: 76.2 × 95.25 cm (30 × 37 1/2 in.)
    framed: 80.01 × 99.06 × 5.08 cm (31 1/2 × 39 × 2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2024.35.5


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Abelardo Morell, Boston, MA; gift to NGA, 2024.

Associated Names

Inscriptions

on verso of frame, signed by artist, lower left in black ink on applied label: Abelardo Morell; lower left printed in black ink on applied label: ABELARDO MORELL / Camera Obscura: View of Lower Manhattan, Sunrise, 2022 / Edition 1/5


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