John Clarence O'Leary Simms
Opium Dreams

CultureMexican
Titles
  • Opium Dreams
  • Sueños de opio
Date1979
PlaceCordoba, Veracruz, Mexico
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 9 5/8 × 9 9/16 in. (24.4 × 24.3 cm)
Sheet: 13 15/16 × 10 15/16 in. (35.4 × 27.8 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Houston Hispanic community and the Wortham Foundation, The Brown Foundation, Inc., the Frees Foundation, and the Comite Patriotico Mexicano
Object number91.190
Non exposé

Explore Further

Department
Photography
Object Type
ProvenancePedro Meyer, Mexico City; purchased by MFAH, 1991.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
in pencil on verso upper left "85".
Signed and inscribed in pencil on verso sheet, lower left: "O'Leary" and at lower right: " 'SUENOS DE OPIO'/ CORDOBA, VERACRUZ/ 1979".

Cataloguing data may change with further research.

If you have questions about this work of art or the MFAH Online Collection please contact us.

The Orientals and the Ethiopian
John Clarence O'Leary Simms
1979
Gelatin silver print
91.189
The Red Baron
John Clarence O'Leary Simms
1979
Gelatin silver print
91.192
Ringo Acosta
John Clarence O'Leary Simms
1979
Gelatin silver print
91.191
Vase
Carroll Harris Simms
c.1965
Stoneware with Albany slip and Bristol glaze
2001.357
Florenz
Nachum Tim Gidal
1934
Gelatin silver print
2002.1161
Tweet Dreams
John Hernandez
1997
Ink on paper
2007.1484
Walls I
Gilberto Chen Charpentier
1986
Gelatin silver print
91.129
cropped recto of sheet
Steve Arnold
1993
Gelatin silver print
2002.581
Neue Träume von Glück (New Dreams of Happiness)
Max Klinger
1880–1887, published 1903, second (deluxe) issue
Etching with engraving and aquatint
95.52.7
Energy and How to Get It
Robert Frank
1981
Gelatin silver print
2000.458
Factory of Saints (Imagenes of Santos)
Tomás Casademont
1994, printed 1995
Gelatin silver print
96.1822