id: 151365 accession number: 1983.206 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1983.206 updated: 2023-03-14 12:01:21.450000 Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads, pl. XXI: Rowing Home the Schoof-Stuff, 1886. Peter Henry Emerson (British, 1856–1936), Sampson Low, Marston, Seale and Riverton (with T.F. Goodall). Platinum print; image: 13.6 x 27.6 cm (5 3/8 x 10 7/8 in.); matted: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Edgar A. Hahn by exchange and Director's Contingent Fund 1983.206 title: Rowing Home the Schoof-Stuff title in original language: series: Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads, pl. XXI series in original language: creation date: 1886 creation date earliest: 1886 creation date latest: 1886 current location: creditline: Bequest of Edgar A. Hahn by exchange and Director's Contingent Fund copyright: --- culture: England technique: platinum print department: Photography collection: PH - British 19th Century type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Peter Henry Emerson (British, 1856–1936) - artist Peter Henry Emerson British, b. Cuba, 1856-1936 Trained as a physician, Peter Henry Emerson abandoned medicine soon after receiving his degree in order to take up photography. His thorough command of the medium and his interest in reproducing rural subjects in a simple, direct manner led to an approach that he called naturalism. Emerson argued vehemently that the inherent qualities of photography should be used to portray subjects in a manner that eschewed artifice and the unnatural intrusions of the photographer's aesthetic style. This was in distinction to the academicism that Emerson despised, exemplified by the artificially constructed, often cloying images of Oscar G. Rejlander and Henry Peach Robinson. Emerson's several illustrated volumes of rural British life, beginning with Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads (1886), combined a clarity of vision derived from the advanced science of his day with a retrospective romanticism derived from French and British painting. The result was a unique style that helped direct photography away from artifice toward the visual integrity now associated with modernism and straight photography. Emerson's attempts as a writer and speaker to develop a theoretical base for his style, while highly regarded, are today thought to be a less powerful statement of his opinions than the work he produced. T.W.F. * Sampson Low, Marston, Seale and Riverton (with T.F. Goodall) - published by --- measurements: Image: 13.6 x 27.6 cm (5 3/8 x 10 7/8 in.); Matted: 35.6 x 45.7 cm (14 x 18 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: from Deluxe Edition support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in pencil on verso: "G 3/5" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Year in Review for 1983 opening date: 1984-02-22T05:00:00 The Year in Review for 1983. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 22-April 8, 1984). title: Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 1996-11-24T05:00:00 Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 24, 1996-February 2, 1997). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * CMA 1984: "Year in Review 1983," Bulletin LXXI (Feb. 1984), p. 71, no. 76.
Princeton, NJ, The Princeton University Art Museum, Pictorial Effect/Naturalistic Vision, March 21-June 7, 1994, cat. #61, p. 84.
also to: Norfolk, VA, The Chrysler Museum, June 21-September 11, 1994.
CMA, November 20,1996 - February 2, 1997: "Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art." --- PROVENANCE Thackery Robinson, San Francisco, CA date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Reacting against the theatrical, sentimental photogaphs made by his contemporaries, Peter Henry Emerson pursued a direct and more naturalistic form of photography. He discovered his subjects in familiar scenes from everyday life and captured them on film. This image was included among the 40 prints illustrating Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads, one of many books Emerson published on the marsh dwellers of East Anglia. In this photograph the word "schoof" refers to the sheaf of marsh plants that have been harvested to be dried and stored at home. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. page number: Reproduced: P. 146 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1983.206/1983.206_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1983.206/1983.206_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1983.206/1983.206_full.tif