Track stretches for miles in each direction, creating a network of trains that frequently pass through The Village of Dolton. Common warning horns of freight trains echo throughout the southern suburb everyday, every hour, and during one of many community events of the year—Steppin at the Fountain. Where on a nearby hilltop of the Dolton Public Library, a young girl dances to the rhythm of her own imagination.

Identification and Creation

Object Number: 2021.33
People: Sebastián Hidalgo, American (born 1995)
Title: Track stretches for miles in each direction, creating a network of trains that frequently pass through The Village of Dolton. Common warning horns of freight trains echo throughout the southern suburb everyday, every hour, and during one of many community events of the year—Steppin at the Fountain. Where on a nearby hilltop of the Dolton Public Library, a young girl dances to the rhythm of her own imagination.
Other Titles: Series/Book Title: From an American Suburb
Classification: Photographs
Work Type: photograph
Date: 2018
Culture: American
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/371703

Physical Descriptions

Medium: Archival pigment print
Technique: Pigment print
Dimensions: 40.6 × 50.8 cm (16 × 20 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: Sebastián Hidalgo, sold; to the Harvard Art Museums, 2021.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Fund for the Acquisition of Photographs
Copyright: © Sebastián Hidalgo
Accession Year: 2021
Object Number: 2021.33
Division: Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact: am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Makeda Best, ed., Devour the Land: War and American Landscape Photography since 1970, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 2021), p. 105, cat. no. 46, ill.

Exhibition History

Devour the Land: War and American Landscape Photography since 1970, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/17/2021 - 01/16/2022

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