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Profile of Yolanda
Profile of Yolanda
Profile of Yolanda

Profile of Yolanda

Artist (American, 1922 - 2005)
Date1982
Mediumgelatin silver print
DimensionsImage: 18 11/16 × 13 1/4 in. (47.5 × 33.7 cm)
Support: 19 13/16 × 15 15/16 in. (50.3 × 40.5 cm)
Mat: 27 7/8 × 22 in. (70.8 × 55.9 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of Anne Noggle from the New Mexico Photographic Survey Project, Museum of Fine Arts, 1981-1984, funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, 1985
Object number1985.114.12
DescriptionHead and shoulder portrait of older woman's head in profile. She faces to left of image, has hooked nose. She wears dotted dress with large beaded necklace. She has round, shiny earring in left ear. Her hair is in a casual style and ear length.
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The subject of this portrait is the artist's friend, Yolanda Belloli, (1894-1983), an American artist known for her sculpture. Boston-born Yolanda married the Italian architect Count Giorgio Belloli and they bought land along the Santa Fe River, (1379 Upper Canyon Road) in 1930 and the following year the Cason del Triunfo, (House of Triumph), was completed. The couple separated in 1947 and Yolanda remained in the home until her death in 1983. Belloli was important in sparking Noggle's interest in art. She was a frequent subject of Noggle's photographs.  Belloli left the house to Noggle in her will and Noggle sold it. 



See negative number 088123 for a 1965 photograph of the house by Karl Kernberger at the New Mexico History Museum's Photo Archive.


This photograph was taken in Santa Fe, probably at Belloli's house on upper Canyon Road.
Another print of this image is in the collection of the Davis Museum at Wellesley College, (2012.40).
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