id:			148781
accession number:	1976.37
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1976.37
updated:		2025-02-09 03:52:48.186000

Private Figments Portfolio, 1973. Abe Frajndlich (American, b.1946). Gelatin silver print; image: 29.1 x 19.4 cm (11 7/16 x 7 5/8 in.); paper: 35.5 x 27.8 cm (14 x 10 15/16 in.); matted: 55.9 x 45.7 cm (22 x 18 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Joseph M. Erdelac 1976.37 © 1973 Abe Frajndlich

title:				Private Figments Portfolio
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creation date:			1973
creation date earliest:		1973
creation date latest:		1973
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creditline:			Gift of Joseph M. Erdelac
copyright:			© 1973 Abe Frajndlich

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culture:	America
technique:	gelatin silver print
department:	Photography
collection:	PH - American 1951-Present
type:		Portfolio
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CREATORS

* Abe Frajndlich (American, b.1946)  - artist
Abe Frajndlich American, b. Germany, 1946– Abraham Samuel Frajndlich (born in Frankfurt am Main) translates literary sequences and series into black-and-white and color images. Upon receiving degrees in English literature from Northwestern University (B.A., 1968; M.A., 1970), he studied with Minor White at a live-in workshop (1970-71) and with Nathan Lyons (1974-75). Frajndlich's haunting portraits of an aged White, emaciated and mystical, are perhaps his most powerful images. Since 1970 Frajndlich has worked as a freelance commercial photographer, doing editorial work for several U.S. and European publications, including Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, ArtNews, London Sunday Times, and the New York Times Magazine. He has participated in many one-person and group exhibitions throughout the United States and in Germany, France, and Belgium. His books include Figments (1975), Cleveland Infra/Red (1979), Lives I've Never Lived: A Portrait of Minor White (1983), Masters of Light (1990), and Gone Beyond Gone (1993). Frajndlich lives in New York. A.W.
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measurements: Image: 29.1 x 19.4 cm (11 7/16 x 7 5/8 in.); Paper: 35.5 x 27.8 cm (14 x 10 15/16 in.); Matted: 55.9 x 45.7 cm (22 x 18 in.)
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	inscription:	Written in pencil on recto: "© Abe Frajndlich 1973"; written in pencil on verso: "PRIVATE FIGMENTS PORTFOLIO / PRINT #1 / Abe Frajndlich [signed]"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Year in Review, 1976
	opening date:   1977-02-01T05:00:00
	<i>Year in Review, 1976</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 1-March 6, 1977).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Joseph M. Erdelac [1914-2005], Cleveland, OH
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: May 7, 1976
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. <em>Catalogue of Photography</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.
	page number: 	Reproduced: P. 162-165
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