Artist
Kate MacDonnell
Marvin Gaye, Here
Date2006
MediumInkjet print
Dimensions16 × 24 in. (40.6 × 61 cm)
Credit LineDC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Art Bank Collection
Object numberDCCAH2007.048
ClassificationsPhotographs
Locations
- Serve DC (2235 Shannon Place SE, Suite 3040)
DescriptionThis cityscape by MacDonnell features a beautiful, haunting portrait of Marvin Gaye. The portrait was made by Jim Hendin during the photo shoot for the What’s Going On album and was used here as a translucent billboard in two parts. At a 90-degree angle, obscured from view in this photograph, is the rest of a Hennessey advertisement. It was at the entrance to the Third Street tunnel in 2006, prior to much of the gentrification in that neighborhood