A recent donor to MAM’s Art Uncorked, Claire Rosen is an award-winning artist known for her imaginative photography—featuring a whimsical exploration of the intersection of art, history, and nature. Her hallmark images include charming animals presented in fantastical anthropomorphized settings. Created during extensive travel, this series of whimsical panoramic photographs depict animals, such as hedgehogs, reveling around elaborate banquet tables, inspired by Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece, The Last Supper (ca. 1495-98). Viewers are encouraged to consider the animal kingdom more humanely, affording them more rights and status. To see animals humanely sometimes requires us to see them as human-like. By placing animals in a setting typically reserved for humans it raises the question of whether we may have more in common than we admit.

Image

Visitors can view this imaginative image in the Vance Wall Art Education Center at the Montclair Art Museum.

^{All MAM programs are made possible in part by funds from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a Partner Agency of the National Endowment for the Arts, and Museum members.}

Image