id: 149916 accession number: 1980.152 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1980.152 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:45.100000 Unpublished illustration [Julia Hall McCune] for Clara Morris, "Beneath the Wrinkle", 1903. Clarence H. White (American, 1871–1925). Platinum print with glycerine development, graphite, crayon, and gouache; image: 20.7 x 18.8 cm (8 1/8 x 7 3/8 in.); matted: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of John Flory, Elizabeth Flory Kelly, and Phoebe Flory 1980.152 title: Unpublished illustration [Julia Hall McCune] for Clara Morris, "Beneath the Wrinkle" title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1903 creation date earliest: 1903 creation date latest: 1903 current location: creditline: Gift of John Flory, Elizabeth Flory Kelly, and Phoebe Flory copyright: --- culture: America, 20th century technique: platinum print with glycerine development, graphite, crayon, and gouache department: Photography collection: PH - American 1900-1950 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: 20.7 x 18.8 cm (8 1/8 x 7 3/8 in.); Matted: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in pencil on recto of photo: "White"; in pencil on recto of mounting tissue: "Clarence H. White [signed] '03"; in pencil on verso of mount: "34 [circled]"; "Illustration by / Clarence H. White"; in pencil on verso of photograph: "Julia McCune / illustration 1903 by Clarence H. White / for magazine story." 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: Paper: The Continuous Thread opening date: 1982-08-31T04:00:00 Paper: The Continuous Thread. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 31-October 24, 1982). 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. 380 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. 68; reproduced: p. 72, fig. 65 url: Tannenbaum, Barbara. “Clarence H. White's World: A new retrospective focuses on the work of a leading Pictorialist.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 58, no. 5 (September/October 2018): 6-7. page number: Reproduced: P. 7; Mentioned: P. 6, 7. url: --- IMAGES