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Artist/Maker
Laura Baring-Gould
(American, born 1965)
Date1994
MediumVan Dyke Brown contact print
DimensionsSheet: 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm)
Credit LineTranferred from the Hamilton College Collection
Object number2025.9.2
Not on view
DescriptionFrom the portfolio forward:
"Baring-Gould works through site-specific installation using unique combinations of materials that may include honey, salt, beeswax, copper and wood. Her pieces evoke themes of loss, change and spirituality by drawing the viewer's attention to nature's own subtle but ceaseless transformations. The artist is a founding member of Reclamation
Artists, a group that creates temporary art installations in neglected urban areas.
For her contribution to the Sculptors' Edition, Baring-Gould has made Van Dyke Brown prints, a photographic process from the 1880s, that detail the collection of an unknown naturalist of the same era. Mirroring the collector's appreciation for birds' eggs, these richly toned images are timeless in their humble observation and cataloguing of biological diversity. "
Collections
Additional Details
Markings
Verso, bottom (paper label, black print):
"This collection of eggs was found in the bottom drawer in an unused room in a college biology lab. Over two hundred eggs lay in / small boxes, each identified and labled by the same hand as to the species, location and date of collection. Most, but not all, came / from the counties of Northern Ohio. Collection dates ranged between 1887 and 1898.
This Van Dyke Brown print was produced using a silver nitrate photographic process developed and extensively used in the early / 1800's. Predating contemporary photography, this process depends upon sunlight to expose the print. The density of the final / image, therefore, is determined by the intensity of the available light and length of the exposure. Exposure times for prints of this series range from 10 to 45 minutes."
"This collection of eggs was found in the bottom drawer in an unused room in a college biology lab. Over two hundred eggs lay in / small boxes, each identified and labled by the same hand as to the species, location and date of collection. Most, but not all, came / from the counties of Northern Ohio. Collection dates ranged between 1887 and 1898.
This Van Dyke Brown print was produced using a silver nitrate photographic process developed and extensively used in the early / 1800's. Predating contemporary photography, this process depends upon sunlight to expose the print. The density of the final / image, therefore, is determined by the intensity of the available light and length of the exposure. Exposure times for prints of this series range from 10 to 45 minutes."
Signature
Recto, bottom right (pencil): "Laura Baring-Gould. 1994."
Leila Daw
Date: 1994
Medium: Van Dyke Brown print, lithography, collage, acrylic medium, bronzing powder and color pencil
Object number: 2025.9.4
Aaron R. Turner
Date: 2020
Medium: Archival inkjet print
Object number: 2025.10.1
Thomas Nast
Date: published February 10, 1877
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.363
Alexa Kumiko Hatanaka
Date: 2021
Medium: Sumi paintings on washi, linocut on washi, rice bags, indigo, kakishibu, and gyotaku on washi, konnyaku, and handmade deckle box gampi paper
Object number: 2024.15
Deviled Eggs and Tuxedos, Tri-Valley Area, Northern California, from the series "Our Kind of People"
Bill Owens
Date: 1969-75
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Object number: 2019.18.66
Lorna Simpson
Date: 1995
Medium: Full color electrostatic heat transfer on wool felt
Object number: 1998.3.4
Rob Fischer
Date: 2006
Medium: Reclaimed wood, with traces of paint, and steel
Object number: 2012.3.5
Matthew Ritchie
Date: 1996
Medium: Oil and felt-tip marker on canvas
Object number: 2012.3.8