id: 149889 accession number: 1980.128 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1980.128 updated: 2023-04-22 12:24:30.824000 Along the Old Canal, 1896. Clarence H. White (American, 1871–1925). Platinum print; image: 15.3 x 21.1 cm (6 x 8 5/16 in.); matted: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of John Flory, Elizabeth Flory Kelly, and Phoebe Flory 1980.128 title: Along the Old Canal title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1896 creation date earliest: 1896 creation date latest: 1896 current location: creditline: Gift of John Flory, Elizabeth Flory Kelly, and Phoebe Flory copyright: --- culture: America, 19th century technique: platinum print department: Photography collection: PH - American 19th Century type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Clarence H. White (American, 1871–1925) - artist Clarence H. White American, 1871-1925 Born in Carlisle, Ohio, Clarence Hudson White moved to the town of Newark in 1887. He began to photograph as a hobby in 1893, quickly becoming quite skilled, and by 1896 his works were recognized by the Ohio Photographers Association. Entirely self-taught, his mastery of the medium was based on his ability to create balanced compositions and to render the subtle effects of natural light. He explored various materials for their aesthetic possibilities, including platinum and gum bichromate prints, and, after 1906, palladium prints. In 1898 White showed his work in Philadelphia, where it came to the attention of Alfred Stieglitz and Joseph Keiley. His images were included in the 1899 Photographic Salon in London, which had been organized by the Linked Ring. From 1900-10 White exhibited in every national and international photographic show in London, Paris, Glasgow, Berlin, and Vienna. Moving to New York City in 1906, he began a career as an educator, lecturing on photography at Columbia University Teachers College (1907-25) and the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences (1908-21). In 1910 White began teaching summer classes in Seguinland, Maine, which led him to open the Clarence H. White School of Photography in New York in 1914. During summer he continued to teach workshops in New York, Connecticut, and Maine. Among his accomplished students were Margaret Bourke-White, Dorothea Lange, Paul J. Outerbridge, Ralph Steiner, and Karl F. Struss. Named a member of the Linked Ring in 1900, White was nominated to the Photo-Secession in 1902. He was the first president of the Pictorial Photographers of America, helping to found it with Gertrude Käsebier and others in 1916. Influenced by Japanese art, the work of James Abbott McNeill Whistler, and other progressive sources, White's style is imaginative and gentle, often underscored by his use of platinum papers. He believed that the photograph was a work of fine art in its own right. Although deeply involved and influential in New York's competitive world of photography, White produced his best work from 1893-1906, photographing simple, open scenes of his family and friends in their domestic, midwestern environment. T.W.F. --- measurements: Image: 15.3 x 21.1 cm (6 x 8 5/16 in.); Matted: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in pencil on recto: "Clarence H. White [signed] '96"; in pencil on verso: "by Clarence White / 'Along the Canal' / Newark, Ohio / this canal ran by RR, / The Fleek Co. Wholesale / grocer's, where Clarence / worked as Bookeeper [sic]" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1980 opening date: 1981-06-24T04:00:00 Year in Review: 1980. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 24-July 19, 1981). title: Industry and Photography: Selections from the Permanent Collection opening date: 1997-11-16T00:00:00 Industry and Photography: Selections from the Permanent Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1997-March 1, 1998). title: Shadows and Dreams: Pictorialist Photography in America opening date: 2015-09-05T00:00:00 Shadows and Dreams: Pictorialist Photography in America. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (September 5, 2015-January 17, 2016). title: Clarence H. White and His World: The Art and Craft of Photography, 1895-1925 opening date: 2017-10-07T04:00:00 Clarence H. White and His World: The Art and Craft of Photography, 1895-1925. Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ (organizer) (October 7, 2017-January 7, 2018); Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley, MA (February 13-June 3, 2018); Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME (June 22-September 16, 2018); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 21, 2018-January 21, 2019). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. page number: Reproduced: P. 375 url: McCauley, Elizabeth Anne. "Amateur Photography and the Poetry of the Everyday" IN Clarence H. White and his world: the art & craft of photography, 1895-1925. Peter C. Bunnell, Verna Posever Curtis, Perrin M. Lathrop, Adrienne Lundgren, Barbara L. Michaels, Ying Sze Pek, and Caitlin Ryan. Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Art Museum, 2017. page number: Mentioned: p. 28; reproduced: p. 29, fig. 16 url: --- IMAGES