The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 19, 2025

View of Waccamaw Neck, SC, Site of First European Colonial Attempt in America (1526)

2004

Michael Loderstedt

(American, b. 1958)
America, Ohio, 21st century
chromogenic process color print
Image: 101.6 x 126.7 cm (40 x 49 7/8 in.); Framed: 113 x 138.3 cm (44 1/2 x 54 7/16 in.); Paper: 101.6 x 126.7 cm (40 x 49 7/8 in.)
Robert A. Mann Fund 2005.147
Location: Not on view

Description

Although few traces remain in the landscape or in common memory of the ill-fated Spanish colony of 1526, Waccamaw Neck has not escaped human alteration. Here, Loderstedt revealed its enduring beauty, despite its tragic past and marred present. By photographing this and other sites of early European contact with the New World, the artist explores how these forgotten sites once contributed to the formation of the American identity.
  • Farver, Jane, Louis Grachos, and Jeffrey D. Grove. The NEO Show: A Juried Exhibition of Artists of Northeast Ohio. [Cleveland, Ohio]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2005. cat. no. 58, p. 130, p.179; color repr. p. 130-131
  • Contemporary Landscape Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 26-August 14, 2011).
    The NEO Show . The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 10-September 4, 2005).
  • {{cite web|title=View of Waccamaw Neck, SC, Site of First European Colonial Attempt in America (1526)|url=false|author=Michael Loderstedt|year=2004|access-date=19 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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