id: 151878
accession number: 1984.171
share license status: Copyrighted
url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1984.171
updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:53.368000
Sea Palms, 1968. Wynn Bullock (American, 1902–1975). Gelatin silver print; image: 19.1 x 23.6 cm (7 1/2 x 9 5/16 in.); matted: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Given in honor of Jerald S. Brodkey by his friends and family 1984.171 © Bullock Family Photography LLC
title: Sea Palms
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creation date: 1968
creation date earliest: 1968
creation date latest: 1968
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creditline: Given in honor of Jerald S. Brodkey by his friends and family
copyright: © Bullock Family Photography LLC
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culture: America, 20th century
technique: gelatin silver print
department: Photography
collection: PH - American 1951-Present
type: Photograph
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CREATORS
* Wynn Bullock (American, 1902–1975) - artist
Wynn Bullock American, 1902-1975
Born Percy Wingfield Bullock in Chicago, Wynn Bullock's first career was as a concert singer. He developed an interest in photography while studying voice and music in Europe in the late 1920s, but did not pursue it seriously until 1938 when he entered the Los Angeles Art Center School to study with Edward Kaminski. After graduating in 1940, Bullock studied briefly with semanticist Alfred Korzybski, then began work as a commercial photographer. His work was featured in one-artist exhibitions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1941), the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco (1956), George Eastman House, Rochester (1957, 1966), and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1976).
Bullock taught photography at San Francisco State College (1945-58), Monterey Peninsula College (1959-60), and the Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology (1967); he also held several patents for various photographic processes. He viewed photography as a way to explore the natural world and his relationship to it. In his studies of nature (trees, landscapes, seascapes) and the nude he sought to delve below surface appearances. Over the years Bullock formulated his ideas into a philosophical system expressed through his photographs and lectures. M.M.
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measurements: Image: 19.1 x 23.6 cm (7 1/2 x 9 5/16 in.); Matted: 40.6 x 50.8 cm (16 x 20 in.)
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edition of the work: 11/25 / print #9
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inscriptions:
inscription: Written in pencil on recto: "Wynn Bullock [signed]"; on verso in black ink: "Sea Palms - 1968 / 11 9"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Year in Review for 1984
opening date: 1985-04-03T05:00:00
Year in Review for 1984. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 3-May 5, 1985).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* {'description': 'CMA, April 3 - May 5, 1985: "Year in Review 1984," CMA Bulletin, 72 (April 1985), p. 201, no. 28, repr. p. 199.', 'opening_date': '1985-04-03T00:00:00'}
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PROVENANCE
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.
page number: Reproduced: P. 114
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