Untitled from the series Private Views

Name/Title

Untitled from the series "Private Views"

Entry/Object ID

2013.70.13

Description

Woman's torso with two sets of hands wrapped around in front of her.

Acquisition

Notes

Collection of DePaul Art Museum, gift of Elizabeth Crane

Made/Created

Artist

Crane, Barbara

Notes

Creation Date: 1980-84/2009

Ethnography

Notes

North America United States

Inscription/Signature/Marks

Location

V: TC

Notes

Inscription Type: "Barbara Crane/Private Views/1980-84/2009/reproduction enlargement"

Notes

Inscription Type: .

Lexicon

Legacy Lexicon

Class

PHOTOGRAPHS

Dimensions

Dimension Description

overall

Width

10 in

Length

8 in

Exhibition

Life Cycles

Interpretative Labels

Label

Barbara Crane (1928–2019) Private Views, 1980–84 Polaroid Polacolor type 59 print Collection of DePaul Art Museum, gift of Elizabeth Crane, 2013.70.13, 2013.70.24, 2013.70.18, 2013.70.30, 2013.70.16 Shot at various summer festivals across Chicago in the 1980s, Barbara Crane’s series Private Views captures moments of tenderness between strangers, with on-the-fly close-ups of intertwining legs and arms and hands placed on shoulders. “Private Views is an homage to what many might consider insignificant moments. I chose these works because of Crane’s ability to capture the ephemeral with such transcendent and timeless care, eternalizing limbs intertwined and lives sewn together, even if just for a few seconds. These images articulate, in their own way, concepts we lack the language for, and ground the many little cycles present within larger ones—even the arms come together in an ever-going loop.” —Bernardo Soares, B.A. History of Art and Architecture Barbara Crane (1928–2019) Vistas privadas, 1980–84 Impresión Polaroid Polacolor tipo 59 Colección del Museo de Arte DePaul, donadas por Elizabeth Crane, 2013.70.13, 2013.70.24, 2013.70.18, 2013.70.30, 2013.70.16 Tomada en varios festivales veraniegos de Chicago en la década de 1980, la serie Vistas privadas de Barbara Crane captura momentos de ternura entre extraños, con acercamientos sobre la marcha de piernas y brazos entrelazados y manos colocadas en hombros. “Vistas privadas es un homenaje a lo que muchos podrían considerar momentos insignificantes. Elegí estas obras por la habilidad de Crane para capturar lo efímero con un cuidado extraordinario y atemporal que perenniza las extremidades entrelazadas y las vidas unidas, incluso solo por unos segundos. Esas imágenes articulan, de una manera u otra, conceptos para los que no tenemos palabras y cimienta los muchos pequeños ciclos presentes dentro de otros más grandes, hasta los brazos se unen en un círculo continuo”. —Bernardo Soares, licenciado en historia del arte y arquitectura