| Maker(s): | Moriarty, Peter
| | Culture: | American
| | Title: | New York Botanical Gardens, Bronx, New York
| | Date Made: | 2005 negative; 2011 print
| | Type: | Photograph
| | Materials: | Gelatin silver print, bleached, gold toning
| | Place Made: | North America; United States
| | Measurements: | Sheet: 15 15/16 in x 19 7/8 in; 40.5 cm x 50.5 cm; Image: 12 11/16 in x 18 7/8 in; 32.2 cm x 47.9 cm
| | Narrative Inscription: | TITLE: verso, lwr ctr. (graphite): New York Botanical Gardens Bronx, NY; SIGNATURE: verso, lwr l (graphite): Peter A Moriarity; INSCRIPTION: verso, lwr l. (graphite): [Ill.] 2011; INSCRIPTION: verso, lower right (graphite): 2005 Negative / 2011 Print.
| | Accession Number: | MH 2014.15.1
| | Credit Line: | Gift of the Artist
| | Museum Collection: | Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
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Description:
Black and white photograph of plants in the interior of a greenhouse.
Label Text:
For more than two decades, Peter Moriarty has been photographing the wondrous flora and heady atmospheres of historic greenhouses in the United States and Europe. Oases for rare, fragile, and exotic plants, greenhouses and conservatories gained popularity as leisure spaces in the 18th and 19th centuries. Visible in this image is the prominent dome of the New York Botanical Garden’s Enid A. Haupt Conservatory, the largest Victorian glass house in the country. Built in the late 1890s, it was conceived as a space for the public to escape the city’s industrial hum and experience the sights and fragrances of distant habitats.
-Hannah Blunt, Associate Curator, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum (Jan. 2017)
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