Co Clare, Ireland

2014

Not on view

Graham’s series, Does Yellow Run Forever?, juxtaposes three groups of photographs: rainbows arcing over the Irish countryside, the facades of pawn-and-jewelry shops in New York, and tender studies of his partner asleep. The thematic links between the images (the rainbow’s mythical pot of gold, the sparkling objects in the Harlem window display, and a sleeping dreamer) may seem obvious, even pat, but Graham’s photographs transmute those clichés into a constellation of deep feeling. These luminous vignettes evoke a sense of longing and pathos, the quest for something permanent amid the illusory and devalued.

Artwork Details

Title: Co Clare, Ireland
Artist: Paul Graham (British, born 1956)
Date: 2014
Medium: Inkjet prints
Dimensions: Each image: 25 5/8 × 34 1/8 in. (65.1 × 86.7 cm)
Each frame: 32 1/2 × 41 × 2 1/2 in. (82.6 × 104.1 × 6.4 cm)
Classification: Photographs
Credit Line: Purchase, Vital Projects Fund Inc. Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel and Hideyuki Osawa Gift, 2015
Object Number: 2015.274a, b
Rights and Reproduction: © Paul Graham
Curatorial Department: Photographs

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