The National Gallery of Art announces its acquisition of 9 photographs by Abelardo Morell. The acquisition includes 5 of the artist's "tent-camera" works, made in a lightproof tent that uses a periscope and lens to project views of the surrounding landscape onto the ground beneath the tent. This technique allows Morell to photograph places previously inaccessible, especially sites depicted by earlier landscape painters and photographers such as American artists Albert Bierstadt and Timothy O'Sullivan and European artists such as John Constable, Claude Monet, and Vincent van Gogh. 4 of these tent camera pictures have entered the collection. Additionally, the National Gallery of Art acquired Morell's "Flowers for Lisa #2" from his 2014-22 series dedicated to his wife Lisa, camera-obscuras from Manhattan and Massachusetts, and a tent-camera made at Yosemite National Park.
This year, The National Gallery also announced its acquisition of approximately 40 significant works by other contemporary Latinx and Latin American artists, including Luis Cruz Azaceta, Ken Gonzales-Day, Guadalupe Maravilla, Michael Menchaca, Sophie Rivera, Joseph Rodríguez, and Rafael Soriano.
