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Untitled (Marble Statue of a Member of the Imperial Family, Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Untitled (Marble Statue of a Member of the Imperial Family, Metropolitan Museum of Art)

2015
(American, b. 1948)
America, 21st century
inkjet print
Image: 33 x 48.3 cm (13 x 19 in.); Paper: 43.2 x 55.9 cm (17 x 22 in.)
Gift of the Artist 2022.32
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

This close-up view of a torso from the turn of the first century AD reads as a human form yet also suggests a modern, abstract planar sculpture.

Description

Seeing the dramatic play of highlights and shadows on this marble torso on view in the galleries of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, it is hard to believe that Larry Merrill made this image with whatever illumination he found in the gallery. Merrill makes these pictures as a regular visitor to the museum, so does not have the opportunity to set up extra lights, nor is he allowed to use flash.
  • 2016–22
    Larry Merrill (the artist) [1948-], given to The Cleveland Museum of Art
    March 7, 2022-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2022.32