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Double Frames, MFA, Boston, Massachusetts
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Mirror Self Portrait with Future Wife, Musee Des Beaux-Arts, Rouen, France
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Two Girls Before Sargent's "Daughter's Of Edward Darley Boit," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
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Apetures, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
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Central Courtyard of the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA
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On Guard I, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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In the New Whitney Museum, New York, New York
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Close Up, National Gallery, Washington DC
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"The Greek Slave" Snap-Shot, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
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Behind the Curtain, MFA, Boston, MA
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Long Room, Metropolitan Museuem, New York, New York
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Portland Art Museum, Portland, Maine
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Before a Monet, Musee des Beaux-Arts, Rouen, France
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On Guard II, Yale Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
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Below and Above Rubens's "The Horrors of War," Palazzo Pitti, Florence, Italy
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At the Crocker 1, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
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At the Crocker 2, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
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At the Crocker 3, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
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Boy surrounded by Sol LeWitt Panels, Mass MoCA North Adams, Massachusetts
Public Story
The Museum's Frame
Credits:
peter nohrnberg
Updated: 07/11/16
What is the relationship between a work of art, its place within a museum, and the viewers (including guards) who share that space for a period of time? Taken within a variety of museums – the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Yale Art Gallery, the National Gallery of Art, the Croker Gallery, the Musee des Beaux-arts de Rouen, the Scottish National Galleries among them – these photos explore the notion that what ultimately gives coherence to any work of art is the frame. A number of the photographs pre-occupy themselves with the frames – including doorways and windows – that are present within the space of a museum and organize its aesthetic meaning. In the portfolio I explore the implicit "dialogue" established between framed visual images and unframed works of sculpture, as well as that between photographically "frozen" humans and statuary.
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