Vantage Point

Artist Lorna Simpson American, born 1960, Brooklyn

Date1991

MediumGelatin silver prints, plastic plaques

DimensionsOverall: 50 x 70 in. (127 x 177.8 cm)

ClassificationsPhotography

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation, Art Trust Fund

Object number2007.2/a-d

On View

Not on view

ProvenanceCreated 1991; collection of the artist; [Sean Kelly Gallery, NY]; sold to NCMA, 1991.
Published ReferencesLinda Dougherty, "The BIG Picture," Preview: The Magazine of the North Carolina Museum of Art (May/June 2007), mentioned 12.

Linda Dougherty and Kinsey Katchka, "The Big Picture," Preview: The Magazine of the North Carolina Museum of Art (July/August 2007), briefly discussed 6-7 and illus. 6.

Kinsey Katchka, entry for Vantage Point, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 582, illus. 583.

Richard J. Powell and Virginia M. Mecklenburg, African American Art: Harlem Renaissance, Civil Rights Era, and Beyond (exhibition catalogue) (New York: Skira Rizzoli for Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2012), briefly discussed 14, illus. 15 (catalogue only, not in exhibition).
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The Big Picture," March 18-September 2, 2007.

Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "Far from Home," February 17-July 13, 2008.

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