Abelardo Morell

Selected Works
Tent-Camera Image: The Epte River #1, Near Giverny, France
2023
Color photograph

Edition of 5 / Image: 22 1/2 x 30 inches / Paper: 28 1/2 x 36 inches
Edition of 10 / Image: 30 x 40 inches / Paper: 38 x 48 inches
Edition of 10 / Image: 45 x 60 inches / Paper: 53 x 68 inches
Signed and numbered on label
(Inventory #35908)

Tent-Camera Image: View of Monet’s Garden #1, Giverny, France
2023
Color photograph

Edition of 5 / Image: 22 1/2 x 30 inches / Paper: 28 1/2 x 36 inches
Edition of 10 / Image: 30 x 40 inches / Paper: 38 x 48 inches
Edition of 10 / Image: 45 x 60 inches / Paper: 53 x 68 inches
Signed and numbered on label
(Inventory #35896)

Tent-Camera Image: Water Lilies in Monet’s Water Garden, Giverny, France
2023
Color photograph

Edition of 5 / Image: 22 1/2 x 30 inches / Paper: 28 1/2 x 36 inches
Edition of 10 / Image: 30 x 40 inches / Paper: 38 x 48 inches
Edition of 10 / Image: 45 x 60 inches / Paper: 53 x 68 inches
Signed and numbered on label
(Inventory #35829)

Tent-Camera Image: View of Pearl Pass, Aspen, Colorado
2023
Color photograph

Edition of 5 / Image: 30 x 22 1/2 inches / Paper: 28 1/2 x 36 inches
Edition of 10 / Image: 40 x 30 inches / Paper: 48 x 38 inches
Edition of 10 / Image: 60 x 45 inches / Paper: 53 x 68 inches
Signed and numbered on label
(Inventory #36243)

Tent Camera Image: Olive Tree #2, St-Remy de Provence, France
2022
Color photograph

Edition of 5 / image: 30 x 22 1/2 inches / paper: 36 x 28 1/2 inches
Edition of 10 / image: 40 x 30 inches / paper: 48 x 38 inches
Edition of 10 / image: 60 x 45 inches / paper: 68 x 53 inches
Signed and numbered
(Inventory #34282)

Tent Camera Image: Sunflower Field, Near Arles, France
2022
Color photograph

Edition of 5 / image: 22 1/2 x 30 inches / paper: 28 1/2 x 36 inches
Edition of 10 / image: 30 x 40 inches / paper: 38 x 48 inches
Edition of 10 / image: 45 x 60 inches / paper: 53 x 68 inches
Signed and numbered on label
(Inventory #34258)

Tent-Camera Image: Sunflower Field on Ground with Broken Tiles, Near Arles, France
2022
Color photograph

Edition of 5 / image: 22 1/2 x 30 inches / paper: 28 1/2 x 36 inches
Edition of 10 / image: 30 x 40 inches / paper: 38 x 48 inches
Edition of 10 / image: 45 x 60 inches / paper: 53 x 68 inches
Signed and numbered on label
(Inventory #34230)

Paint #17
2022
Color photograph

Edition of 5 / Image size: 22 1/2 x 30 inches / paper: 28 1/2 x 36 inches
Edition of 10 / Image size: 30 x 40 inches / paper: 38 x 48 inches
Edition of 10 / Image/paper size: 45 x 60 inches
Signed and numbered on label on reverse
(Inventory #33905)

Glassware Still Life #1
2019
Color photograph

Edition of 10 / Image size: 30 x 40 inches / paper: 38 x 48 inches
Edition of 10 / Image size: 45 x 60 inches / paper: 53 x 68 inches
Edition of 5 / Image/paper size: 60 x 80 inches
Signed and numbered
(Inventory #31453)

Pieta
2019
Color photograph

Edition of 5 / Image size: 22 1/2 x 30 inches / paper: 28 1/2 x 36 inches
Edition of 10 / Image size: 30 x 40 inches / paper: 38 x 48 inches
Edition of 10 / image: 45 x 60 inches / paper: 53 x 68 inches
Signed and numbered on label
(Inventory #31420)

Wood Chunk on Pieter Bruegel the Elder Book
2019
Color photograph

Edition of 10 / image: 30 x 40 inches / paper: 38 x 48 inches
Edition of 10 / image: 45 x 60 inches / paper: 53 x 68 inches
Edition of 5 / image/paper: 60 x 80 inches
Signed and numbered
(Inventory #31454)

Small Table and Its Shadow – After Charles Sheeler. Hancock Shaker Village
2018
Black and white photograph

Edition of 5 / Image size: 22 1/2 x 30 inches / paper: 28 1/2 x 36 inches
Edition of 10 / Image size: 30 x 40 inches / paper: 38 x 48 inches
Edition of 10 / image: 45 x 60 inches / paper: 53 x 68 inches
Signed and numbered on label
(Inventory #31423)

Camera Obscura: View of Florence from Hotel Excelsior, Italy
2017
Color photograph

Edition of 10 / Image size: 30 x 40 inches / paper: 38 x 48 inches
Edition of 10 / Image size: 45 x 60 inches / paper: 53 x 68 inches
Edition of 5 / Image/paper size: 60 x 80 inches
Signed and numbered
(Inventory #31426)

Flowers for Lisa #19
2016
Color photograph

Edition of 10 / image: 30 x 22 1/2 inches / paper: 36 x 28 1/2 inches
Edition of 10 / image: 40 x 30 inches / paper: 48 x 38 inches
Edition of 5 / image: 60 x 45 inches / paper: 68 x 53 inches
Signed and numbered on label
(Inventory #31427)

Tent-Camera Image on Ground: Walden Pond
2016
Color photograph

Edition of 5 / image: 22 1/2 x 30 inches / paper: 28 1/2 x 36 inches
Edition of 10 / image: 30 x 40 inches / paper: 38 x 48 inches
Edition of 10 / image: 45 x 60 inches / paper: 55 x 70 inches
Signed and numbered on label
(Inventory #33613)

Tent-Camera Image on Ground: View of the Golden Gate Bridge from Battery Yates
2012
Color photograph

Edition of 10 / image: 22 1/2 x 30 inches / paper: 28 1/2 x 36 inches
Edition of 8 / image: 30 x 40 inches / paper: 38 x 48 inches
Edition of 6 / image: 45 x 60 inches / paper: 53 x 68 inches
Edition of 3 / image/paper: 60 x 80 inches
Signed and numbered on label
(Inventory #31430)

Tent-Camera Image on Ground: View of Jordan Pond and the Bubble Mountains, Acadia National Park, Maine, March
2010
Color photograph

Edition of 10 / Image size: 22 1/2 x 30 inches / paper: 28 1/2 x 36 inches
Edition of 8 / Image size: 30 x 40 inches / paper: 38 x 48 inches
Edition of 6 / Image size: 45 x 60 inches / paper: 53 x 68 inches
Edition of 3 / Image/paper size: 60 x 80 inches
Signed and numbered
(Inventory #31434)

Rinehart/Inness, Yale University Art Gallery
2008
Color photograph

Edition of 10 / Image size: 22 1/2 x 30 inches / paper: 28 1/2 x 36 inches
Edition of 8 / Image size: 30 x 40 inches / paper: 38 x 48 inches
Edition of 6 / Image size: 45 x 60 inches / paper: 53 x 68 inches
Edition of 3 / Image/paper size: 60 x 80 inches
Signed and numbered
(Inventory #31438)

Open Dictionary
2001
Black and white photograph

Edition of 30 / image size: 18 x 22 1/2 inches / paper size: 22 x 26 1/2 inches
Edition of 15 / image size: 32 x 40 inches / paper size: 40 x 48 inches
Edition of 5 / image size: 48 x 60 inches / paper size: 56 x 68 inches
Signed and numbered
(Inventory #35155)

Pencil
2000
Black and white photograph

Edition of 30 / Image size: 22 1/2 x 18 inches / paper: 25 x 21 1/2 inches
Edition of 15 / Image size: 40 x 32 inches / paper: 48 x 40 inches
Edition of 5 / Image/paper size: 60 x 48 inches
Signed and numbered
(Inventory #33743)

Sunspots on Covered Table, Umbertide, Italy
2000
Black and white photograph

Edition of 30 / Image size: 18 x 22 1/2 inches / paper: 21 x 25 1/2 inches
Edition of 15 / Image size: 32 x 40 inches / paper: 40 x 48 inches
Edition of 5 / Image/paper size: 48 x 60 inches
Signed and numbered
(Inventory #31446)

Additional Information

Abelardo Morell was born in Havana, Cuba in 1948. He immigrated to the United States with his parents in 1962.  Morell received his undergraduate degree from Bowdoin College and his MFA from The Yale University School of Art. He has received an honorary degree from Bowdoin College in 1997 and from Lesley University in 2014.  He was professor of Photography at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston from 1983 to 2010.

His publications include a photographic illustration of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1998) by Dutton Children’s Books,  A Camera in a Room (1995) by Smithsonian Press,  A Book of Books (2002) by Bulfinch Press, Camera Obscura (2004) by Bulfinch Press, Abelardo Morell (2005) by Phaidon Press, The Universe Next Door (2013) by The Art Institute of Chicago, Tent-Camera (2018) by Nazraeli Press, and Flowers for Lisa (2018) by Abrams Books.

He has received a number of awards and grants, which include a Guggenheim fellowship in 1994 and an Infinity Award in Art from ICP in 2011. In November 2017, he received a Lucie Award for achievement in fine art. His work has been collected and shown in many galleries, institutions and museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Art Museum in New York, The Chicago Art Institute, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Houston Museum of Art, The Boston Museum of Fine Art, The Victoria & Albert Museum and several other museums in the United States and abroad. A retrospective of his work organized jointly by the Art Institute of Chicago, The Getty in Los Angeles, and The High Museum in Atlanta closed in May 2014 after a year of travel. His Tent-Camera work made in U.S. National Parks was included in the travelling exhibition Ansel Adams in Our Time at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the de Young Museum in San Francisco, and the Crystal Bridges Museum in Bentonville. Most recently, in the fall of 2024 a selection of his Tent-Camera work made in England and France was shown at the Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts.