The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of June 10, 2026
Christmas Solar Eclipse in My Father's Hands, Sanibel
2000, printed 2023
(American, b. 1953)
Sheet: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.); Frame: 61 x 50.8 cm (24 x 20 in.)
© Barbara Bosworth
Location: Not on view
Did You Know?
The final eclipse of the second millennium CE—a partial solar eclipse—took place on Christmas Day 2000.Description
Barbara Bosworth was visiting her parents in Sanibel, Florida during that eclipse. To make this photograph, the artist punched pinholes in a large cardboard sheet and held it between the sun and her father. During the eclipse, the pinholes projected images of the sun onto his hands, with part of its circle covered by the moon.- Barbara Bosworth: Sun Light Moon Shadow. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 25-June 30, 2024).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2024.134