Linking Collections, Building Connections
Sharon Core
Drive-Thru, Kingston, 2005
C-print
30 x 33 in.
Dorsky; purchased in part with funds from M & T Charitable Foundation
2008.015
Ivan Summers
Old Senate House, Kingston, ca. 1935
Etching and aquatint
7 3/4 x 9 3/4 in.
Dorsky; bequest of Edward Coykendall
1957.001.108
Lilo Raymond
City Hall, Kingston, 1998
Gelatin silver print
11 x 14 in.
Dorsky; gift of the artist
2008.038.012
These three photographic representations of buildings in Kingston, NY perform both documentary and interpretive roles. Ivan Summers and Lilo Raymond use government buildings as their subjects: Summers presents the Senate House as a stately, preserved historic landmark, while Raymond treats the civic space of City Hall, Kingston as a desolate interior, picturesque in its decay. Sharon Core’s photograph of a Kingston drive-thru uses a McDonald’s truck as a compositional device dividing a rocky outcropping, ubiquitous in the Catskill landscape, from the urban view behind, signifying the encroachment of the commercial on the Hudson Valley’s natural beauty.