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accession number:	1999.258
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url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1999.258
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Tim and Rembrandt, Gardner Museum, 1998. Abelardo Morell (American, 1948-). Gelatin silver print; image: 45.9 x 57 cm (18 1/16 x 22 7/16 in.); paper: 48.3 x 60.7 cm (19 x 23 7/8 in.); matted: 61 x 71.1 cm (24 x 28 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Friends of Photography 1999.258

title:				Tim and Rembrandt, Gardner Museum
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creation date:			1998
creation date earliest:		1998
creation date latest:		1998
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creditline:			Gift of Friends of Photography
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culture:	America, 20th century
technique:	gelatin silver print
department:	Photography
collection:	PH - American 1951-Present
type:		Photograph
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CREATORS

* Abelardo Morell (American, 1948-)  - artist
Abelardo Morell American, b. Cuba, 1948- Havana-born Abe Morell became interested in photography while a student of John McKee at Bowdoin College in Maine (B.A., 1977). Fascinated by the surreal, he initially produced manipulated prints of outlandish scenarios. The work of Robert Frank, Diane Arbus, and Henri Cartier-Bresson, however, showed Morell "that straight photography could pack more surrealism into a picture" than he could achieve through manipulation. Adopting a 35mm straight technique, in 1978 he traveled to Miami and New York to work as a street photographer in the vein of Garry Winogrand and Lee Friedlander, continuing in this format at Yale University (M.F.A., 1981). In the late 1980s, Morell began two series for which he is best known: large-scale black-and-white photographs of interior spaces made with a self-built camera obscura, and still lifes of pictures of the pictures in books. The images provide clever post-modern commentary on the nature of photographic representation by referencing the medium's beginnings while simultaneously celebrating the ephemeral magic of light and shadow. Devoid of human subjects, these psychologically complex interior landscapes allude to the changing spheres of childhood and family, and our understanding of history itself, in contemporary middle-class society. Morell has received fellowships from the Cintas Foundation (1992-93) and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1993-94). He currently chairs the photography department at Massachusetts College of Art and lives in Quincy. A.W.
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measurements: Image: 45.9 x 57 cm (18 1/16 x 22 7/16 in.); Paper: 48.3 x 60.7 cm (19 x 23 7/8 in.); Matted: 61 x 71.1 cm (24 x 28 in.)
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	inscription:	written in pencil on verso: Abelardo Morell [signed] #8/30 Tim and Rembrandt, Gardner Museum, 1998"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Gifts from the CMA Friends of Photography
	opening date:   2002-12-07T00:00:00
	<i>Gifts from the CMA Friends of Photography</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 7, 2002-April 23, 2003).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'Cleveland, Ohio:  The Cleveland Museum of Art; December 7, 2002 -  April 23, 2003.  "Gifts from the CMA Friends of Photography."', 'opening_date': '2002-12-07T00:00:00'}

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