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The Recital
The Recital
The Recital

The Recital

Artist (American, 1922 - 2005)
Date1969
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 4 5/8 × 11 1/8 in. (11.7 × 28.3 cm)
Support: 11 × 14 in. (27.9 × 35.6 cm)
Mat: 12 × 16 in. (30.5 × 40.6 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Chester Pease, 1976
Object number3446.23PH
DescriptionWide angle view of a recital being held in a large ballroom that is decorated with a large oriental rug, Spanish Colonial style furniture and a large circular chandelier. A woman sits at a grand piano turning the music pages, while a woman stands next to the piano singing. Guests are seated and standing throughout the room. The three young women seated at the right are wearing lace mantillas.
Text Entries
The photograph was made with Noggle's Panon camera. 
The Museum owns duplicate copies of this image. The accession numbers are 1996.40.60 and 3446.23PH
According to Noggle's longtime friend and studio assistant Jim Holbrook, the photograph was taken at a wedding at the La Posada Hotel in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
The donors are Mary Pease, (1918-2004), the artist's elder sister and only sibling and her husband Chester Pease, (1914-1978).
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The Recital
Anne Noggle
1969
Pie Town
Russell Lee
1940
Taos County
Russell Lee
1939
Pie Town, NM
Russell Lee
1940
Sandia Preparatory School
Laura Gilpin
1936-1941
Sandia Preparatory School
Laura Gilpin
1936-1941
Pie Town
Russell Lee
1940
Pie Town, NM
Russell Lee
1940
Casta 5
Delilah Montoya
Conceived 2018, constructed 2020