Camera Obscura

1937 · Drawing and Watercolor

Can I see it?

Yes, on view now

Where is “Camera Obscura” now? Art Institute of Chicago, Gallery 397, Chicago. Yes, on view now. Checked September 29, 2026.

Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Room397

Closed· opens tomorrow at 11:00 AM

On public display.

Checked: 11 days ago
In this state since: Aug 19, 2026
Source: The museum

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Accession number: 2018.348

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Drawings & watercolors Charcoal Modernism 20th century England

Sources

Art Institute of Chicago
Image: Art Institute of Chicago — © the artist or rights holder

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Camera Obscura

Yes, on view now

Details

In the catalog

Sources

More by Roland Penrose

Untitled (plate, folio 3) from Salvo for Russia

Bush in Hand from S.M.S. No. 3

Composition with Spheres

La Terre en bouteille/Bottled earth

In the same room · Gallery 397, Art Institute of Chicago

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Untitled (Butterfly Habitat), c. 1940

Untitled, c. 1972

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The Tiara, 1966/67

Untitled (L'Abeille), April 7, 1966

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