Bowdoin College Museum of Art

Preview image of work. gelatin silver print, Untitled 7665

1971.13.2

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Artist

Abelardo Morell, Class of 1971 (Havana, Cuba, 1948 - )

Title

Untitled

Creation Date

1971

Century

20th century

Dimensions

6 3/8 in. x 9 1/4 in. (16.19 cm. x 23.49 cm.)

Classification

Photographs

Creation Place

North America, United States

Medium and Support

gelatin silver print

Credit Line

Museum Purchase

Copyright

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Accession Number

1971.13.2

As an undergraduate at Bowdoin College, Abelardo Morell took classes with photographer John McKee and worked at this Museum as object photographer. He quickly became attuned to the medium and produced works of lasting significance. This untitled photograph is one of four from Morell’s student years in the collection. The TV screens The Twilight Zone, a series first broadcasted on CBS from 1959–1964 with which the artist was obsessed at the time. Morell went on to explore the theme of projected and layered images in widely collected and critically acclaimed series of works, such as his Camera Obscura works (since 1991, published Art Institute of Chicago, 2013) and his A Book of Books (published Bulfinch, 2002).