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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
The AIDS Memorial Quilt, Washington, D.C.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.

The AIDS Memorial Quilt, Washington, D.C.

Artist Salvatore (Sal) Lopes (American, b. 1943)
CultureAmerican
Date1989
MediumGelatin silver print
DimensionsOverall, Image: 15 15/16 × 24 in. (40.5 × 61 cm)
Overall, Paper: 19 1/8 × 28 1/16 in. (48.6 × 71.3 cm)
Overall, Mat: 24 × 30 in. (61 × 76.2 cm)
Overall, Frame: 25 3/16 × 31 1/8 in. (64 × 79.1 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase with funds donated by Edwin and Nancy Jacobson in memory of John Bennett Jacobson
Object number94.16
Not on view
DescriptionThis is a gelatin silver print of the Aids Memorial Quilt laid out in Washington D.C.

Exhibition History"Living with AIDS: A Photogrpahic Journal by Sal Lopes," The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Va., March 26 - June 5, 1994. "Treasures for the Community: The Chrysler Collects, 1989-1996," The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Va., October 25, 1996 - March 2, 1997. "Come Together, Right Now: The Art of Gathering," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, October 11, 2020 - January 3, 2021.
Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Salvatore (Sal) Lopes
October 1989
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with digitial camera-2007.
Salvatore (Sal) Lopes
November 1983
Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Salvatore (Sal) Lopes
November 1986
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with digitial camera-2007.
Salvatore (Sal) Lopes
November 1986
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Salvatore (Sal) Lopes
September 1984
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with digitial camera-2007.
Salvatore (Sal) Lopes
November 1984
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with digitial camera-2007.
Salvatore (Sal) Lopes
November 1986
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2018.
Salvatore (Sal) Lopes
October 1991