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Dutch Paintings: The Poetry of Everyday Life
June 19, 2003
Laura McPhee professor, photography, Mass College Art
Abelardo Morell professor, photography, Mass College Art

Laura McPhee and Abelardo Morell share their responses to the range of works gathered from local collections for the exhibition The Poetry of Everyday Life: Dutch Paintings in Boston Collections. McPhee is renowned for her panoramic landscape vistas; Morell for his city views captured with a camera obscura, as well as magical still lifes. The work of both photographers offers parallels to the close and transforming attention 17th-century Dutch painters gave to the everyday world.

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