Artist
Abelardo Morell
born Havana, Cuba 1948
- Also known as
- Abe Morell
- Abelardo Morrell
- Born
- Havana, Cuba
- Active in
- Quincy, Massachusetts, United States
- Brookline, Massachusetts, United States
- New York, New York, United States
- Biography
Abelardo Morell was born in Havana. As a child he felt a sense of alienation and isolation in Cuba, feelings that remained when he moved as a teenager with his family to New York City. Although he later studied comparative religion at Bowdoin College, he eventually took up photography as a way to express his feelings as an immigrant to the United States during the turbulent 1960s.
Jonathan Yorba Arte Latino: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum (New York and Washington, D.C.: Watson-Guptill Publications, in cooperation with the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 2001)
Videos
Exhibitions
October 25, 2013–March 2, 2014
Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art presents the rich and varied contributions of Latino artists in the United States since the mid-twentieth century, when the concept of a collective Latino identity began to emerge.