Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2023.

Room 9, House of the Ceii (I.615), #15-048, Pompeii

Artist William Wylie (American, born 1957)

CultureAmerican

Date2015

MediumArchival pigment print

Dimensions45 × 55 in. (114.3 × 139.7 cm)

Credit LineGift of the artist

Object number2022.37.3

On View

Not on view

DescriptionThis is a black and white, archival pigment print depicting an ancient wall from the site of Pompeii. Parts of remaining frescos appear on the smooth surface of a wall from a villa. There is a small square window in the wall and a rectangular aperture revealing another room beyond the antechamber.
ProvenanceThe photograph comes from the artist's studio, fabricated for this gift and gallery Page Bond Gallery in Richmond, Virginia to CMA.Exhibition History"Pompeii Archive," Koeln-Art Gallery, Cologne, Germany, 2016 "Pompeii Archive," Gregory Aliicar Museum of Art, Colorado State University,, Fort Collins, CO, 2018. "Pompeii Archive," Vanderbilt University of Fine Arts Gallery, Nashville, TN, 2018. "Pompeii: Photographs and Fragments," Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, 2018. "Pompeii Archive," Fralin Museum of Art, University of Virginia, CHarlottesville, VA, 2019. "Pompeii Archive," Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, 2019. "The Possibility of Ruins," Page Bond Gallery, RIchmond, VA 2020.Published ReferencesWilliam Wilie, Pompeii Archive. Hew Haven: Yale University Press, 2018. William Wylie, The Possibility of Runis. Richmond: Page Bond Gallery, 2022, p. 37, illustrated.