Record ID:
408372
Accession number:
MA 9178
Published:
2017
Credit:
Gift of the artist in honor of the security guards of the Morgan Library & Museum; courtesy of Edwynn Houk Gallery, 2017.
Description:
1 photographic print
Notes:
Morell created this work in collaboration with the Morgan to mark Thoreau's bicentenary. In 1979, at the start of his artistic career, Morell worked at the Morgan as a night guard and he donated this print in honor of the Morgan's security guards.
Summary:
The photographic grid, which reads from left to right and top to bottom, depicts the covers of the blank books in which Henry David Thoreau kept his journal over the course of twenty-four years. All the journals depicted are from the Morgan's collection (
Medium:
Archival inkjet print
Dimensions:
image: 36 x 43 inches (40 x 47 inches including 4-inch borders); frame: 44 x 51 inches
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