Looking Back toward Ireland—The Mid-North Atlantic Ocean, Punta Prieta, the East‑Most Point of the Isle of Lanzarote and All the Canary Islands, Spain A possible landing site of St. Brendan, who has often been credited with the ancient European discove

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Looking Back toward Ireland—The Mid-North Atlantic Ocean, Punta Prieta, the East‑Most Point of the Isle of Lanzarote and All the Canary Islands, Spain A possible landing site of St. Brendan, who has often been credited with the ancient European discove

Descriptive: A possible landing site of St. Brendan, who has often been credited with the ancient European discovery of the Canary Islands, adn who is one of the three patron saints of the Canary Islands. St. Brendan may have staged his supposed further trans-Atlantic

2002, printed 2014
Photographs
Selenium-toned chlorobromide gelatin silver print
Secondary support: 40 × 54 in. (101.6 × 137.16 cm) Frame: 41 × 55 in. (104.14 × 139.7 cm)
Gift of Lannan Foundation (M.2020.82.37)
Photography
Not currently on public view