BGuthrie Photos: Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Abelardo Morell ("The Universe Next Door") (Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture)

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Description of Pictures: Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture Series: Abelardo Morell: The Universe Next Door
Abelardo Morell is a Boston-based artist born in Havana, Cuba. Morell earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Bowdoin College in 1977, and a Master of Fine Arts from Yale University School of Art in 1981. Morell’s work has been shown at more than 70 museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In this talk the artist discusses his work and process. Morell is best known for his Camera Obscura images. Using techniques developed in the ancient world to project an outdoor scene onto the walls of a darkened room, he creates a natural optical phenomenon that he then captures with a large-format camera, as seen in Camera Obscura Image of Manhattan View Looking West in Empty Room that is part of SAAM’s Latino and photography collections.
The Clarice Smith Distinguished Lectures in American Art highlight excellence and innovation in American art through evenings with an outstanding artist, critic, and scholar. These lectures are a forum for discussing the creative experience and what American art is today.
This annual series is made possible by the generosity of Clarice Smith.
The event was introduced by E. Carmen Ramos, Deputy Chief Curator.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. MOREL1_171115_013.JPG: Nona Martin, Abelardo Morell, and ???
2. MOREL1_171115_027.JPG: Abelardo Morell, Clarice Smith, E. Carmen Ramos
3. MOREL1_171115_034.JPG: E. Carmen Ramos
4. MOREL2_171115_329.JPG: Caroline Sheen and Eric Long
5. MOREL3_171115_156.JPG: "Man cannot afford to be a naturalist, to look at Nature directly, but only with the side of his eye. He must look through and beyond her." -- Henry David Thoreau
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- Smith, Clarice appears on:
  - 2018_DC_Molesworth_180912 Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Helen Molesworth (Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture)
  - 2017_DC_Honors_171203 DC -- Kennedy Center -- Kennedy Center Honors (2017)
  - 2017_DC_Smee_171025 Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Sebastian Smee ("Art and Darkness") (Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture)
  - 2017_DC_Yount_170913 Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Sylvia Yount ("Breaking Boundaries: American Art and the 21st-Century Museum") (Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture)
  - 2017_DC_WAS60s_170112 Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Panel -- Washington Art Scene in the 60s
  - 2016_DC_Butterfield_161019 Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Deborah Butterfield (Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture)
  - 2014_DC_Foster_141105 Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Kathleen Foster ("They’re Saved! They’re Saved!: Winslow Homer and The Life Line") (Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture)
  - 2014_DC_Saltz_141022 Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Jerry Saltz ("A Year in the Life of an Art Critic") (Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture)
  - 2012_DC_Salatino_120919 Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Kevin Salatino ("Edward Hopper and the Burden of (Un)Certainty") (Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture)
  - 2010_DC_Feeney_101027 Reynolds Center (SAAM) -- Mark Feeney ("Four Photographers on Three Wheels") (Clarice Smith Distinguished Lecture)
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