The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 25, 2024
1200 Meditation, Things My Mother Gave Me
2005
(American, b. 1965)
Image: 43.5 x 59.9 cm (17 1/8 x 23 9/16 in.); Paper: 51.3 x 70 cm (20 3/16 x 27 9/16 in.); Matted: 71.1 x 81.3 cm (28 x 32 in.)
Gift of Friends of Photography 2007.178
© Cecil McDonald Jr.
Location: not on view
Description
The Chicago-based artist Cecil McDonald utilizes his training in fashion and photography to restage scenes from his family’s domestic life. His purposefully arranged, carefully lit scenes give the viewer a glimpse into the private world of the photographer’s family while calling attention to the themes of gender, race, and class. This colorful photograph, from McDonald’s well-known series “Domestic Observations and Occurrences,” portrays his two teenaged daughters interacting in their home. He complicates the boundaries between public and private for viewers by stylizing his family’s daily routine. Gift of Friends of Photography 2007.178- From the artist to the Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago.
- Portraiture: American Photography 1960 to the Present. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 1-September 13, 2009).The Cleveland Museum of Art (06/01/2009 - 09/13/2009); "Portraiture: American Photography 1960 to the Present"
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