Material
Photography
About
Classic Americana c-print photograph of a vintage bell hop sign in Noel, MO by Houston, TX artist Amy Blakemore. The photo features a central sign in the shape of a man in a traditional red bell hop outfit gesturing towards the entrance of a hotel. Edition 1/20. Previous gallery label with title, date, medium, and edition on reverse. Currently hung in a black metal frame with complementary white matting.
Artist Biography
Amy Blakemore received a BS in Psychology (1980) and a BA in Art (1982) from Drury College (now Drury University), Springfield, MO, and an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin in 1985. From 1985-87 Amy Blakemore was an artist resident at the Core Program, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX. She has exhibited her photographs throughout Texas and internationally for the past thirty years, including participating in the 2006 Whitney Biennial, Day for Night, curated by Chrissie Iles and Philippe Vergne, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, and solo presentations at James Harris Gallery, Seattle, WA (2010), and the 2005 Pingyao International Festival for Photography in Pingyao, China. A twenty-year retrospective of her work, Amy Blakemore Photographs 1988-2008, was organized by Alison de Lima Greene at the MFAH (2009), and traveled to the Seattle Art Museum (2010) and the Oklahoma City Museum of Art (2011). Most recently, she was the subject of two survey exhibitions: I'm Not Tellin' at the Art League Houston (2015) and Right Here, Right Now at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (2016), and a two person exhibition including recent work at the Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig (2018). Blakemore lives and works in Houston, TX, where she is head of the Photography department at the Glassell School, MFAH.
Dimensions With Frame
H 29.38 in. x W 29.38 in. x D 1 in.
Dimensions Without Frame
H 19 in. x W 19 in.
!["Noel, MO" Modern C-Print Photograph of Vintage Bell Hop Hotel Sign Edition 1/20 1986/1997](https://reevesantiques.imgix.net/media/A2022.0216.3551.3.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&ixlib=php-1.1.0&q=90&w=320&s=3705b131ae1f37231067c00521e01743 320w, https://reevesantiques.imgix.net/media/A2022.0216.3551.3.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&ixlib=php-1.1.0&q=90&w=540&s=66b69a480a4c2d282e98ce58afcd08fc 540w, https://reevesantiques.imgix.net/media/A2022.0216.3551.3.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&ixlib=php-1.1.0&q=90&w=768&s=a905182bebd5ff72a305b6843802b694 768w, https://reevesantiques.imgix.net/media/A2022.0216.3551.3.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&ixlib=php-1.1.0&q=90&w=1024&s=ea7d9640251e7f459493d52d2538f986 1024w, https://reevesantiques.imgix.net/media/A2022.0216.3551.3.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&ixlib=php-1.1.0&q=90&w=1200&s=0201bb17a2218c589070e367ece11afb 1200w, https://reevesantiques.imgix.net/media/A2022.0216.3551.3.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&ixlib=php-1.1.0&q=90&w=1440&s=f64bdfbb1ebdd2f482be258cc7991b56 1440w, https://reevesantiques.imgix.net/media/A2022.0216.3551.3.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&ixlib=php-1.1.0&q=90&w=1920&s=85c60155d0ee543d5129af1dd81324b7 1500w)
!["Noel, MO" Modern C-Print Photograph of Vintage Bell Hop Hotel Sign Edition 1/20 1986/1997](https://reevesantiques.imgix.net/media/A2022.0216.3551.9.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&ixlib=php-1.1.0&q=90&w=320&s=09c3f8cf88dbcc24e72211b550e52a2e 320w, https://reevesantiques.imgix.net/media/A2022.0216.3551.9.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&ixlib=php-1.1.0&q=90&w=540&s=767a11481482da4b230663476eb83c33 540w, https://reevesantiques.imgix.net/media/A2022.0216.3551.9.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&ixlib=php-1.1.0&q=90&w=768&s=5f2798ab6f6cce382b40acd93b924aa8 768w, https://reevesantiques.imgix.net/media/A2022.0216.3551.9.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&ixlib=php-1.1.0&q=90&w=1024&s=23a1337ff0c0562d108797a80abc9a1d 1024w, https://reevesantiques.imgix.net/media/A2022.0216.3551.9.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&ixlib=php-1.1.0&q=90&w=1200&s=b11c9546ee1bd6d5b7816163b5ced1dc 1200w, https://reevesantiques.imgix.net/media/A2022.0216.3551.9.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&ixlib=php-1.1.0&q=90&w=1440&s=10603887324be86fd559f88cda68893b 1440w, https://reevesantiques.imgix.net/media/A2022.0216.3551.9.jpg?auto=compress%2Cformat&fit=max&ixlib=php-1.1.0&q=90&w=1920&s=ab48a38d29b515975ea58a02acc6c3ef 1500w)