The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 19, 2025

Moonlight Over Albuquerque

1976

Anne Noggle

(American, 1922–2005)
America
gelatin silver print
Gift of Cal Kowal and Anita Douthat 2022.327
Location: Not on view

Did You Know?

The title refers to Ansel Adams’s famous photograph of New Mexico, Moonrise over Hernandez.

Description

In Adams’s image, the moon rises over a remote, tiny town while a few rays of remaining sunlight illuminate the crosses in the cemetery. Noggle’s contemplation of mortality shows her partner, Marjorie Shellenberger, in the unflatteringly harsh light of the camera’s flash. Instead of a bucolic desert landscape this scene—probably shot in the artist’s backyard—presents an urban or suburban environment bisected by telephone or electric wires.
  • ?-2022
    Cal Kowal [1944-], Alexandria, KY, given to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
    December 5, 2022-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2022.327