Artist
Caleb Stein(British, born 1994)British, born 1994
CultureBritish
Titles
- Sanjay & Sherika
- from the series Down by the Hudson
Date2020
Place depictedPoughkeepsie, New York, United States
MediumInkjet print
DimensionsImage: 30 5/16 × 45 1/4 in. (77 × 115 cm)
Sheet: 33 3/4 × 47 7/8 in. (85.7 × 121.6 cm)
Sheet: 33 3/4 × 47 7/8 in. (85.7 × 121.6 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Joan Morgenstern
Object number2022.331
Current Location
The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building
Gallery 313
On view
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Department
PhotographyObject Type
While a student at Vassar College, Caleb Stein discovered the watering hole where locals go to swim. Since his graduation, he has returned summer after summer to photograph the locals at their favorite spot, such as this couple embracing in the water. For Stein, the watering hole represents not only a leisure area to escape the summer heat, but also a neutral zone to flee the political tensions that mark American life. Stein’s portraits at the watering hole are the result of conversations and collaborations with the people he encounters there, becoming celebratory pictures of their personalities.
ProvenanceThe artist; [RoseGallery, Santa Monica, California]; purchased by MFAH, 2022.
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Caleb Stein
2023, printed 2023
Inkjet print
2024.317
Glenn Ligon
2000
Inkjet print in colors on wove paper (.A) screenprint over inkjet print in colors on wove paper (.B), edition 13/20
2005.1082.A,.B